[ovs-dev] [PATCH 1/2] bridge: Require learning table at all times.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Tue Nov 10 21:51:52 UTC 2009



Ben Pfaff wrote:
> Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com> writes:
>
>   
>> The bridge nominally allowed the MAC learning module to not be enabled
>> though in reality it was always used.  Tracking active MAC addresses
>> in the bridge is useful for other reasons besides deciding the output
>> port - primarily for bonding.  In addition there were several bugs
>> that would have been triggered had learning actually been disabled since
>> that code path is never tested.  This makes it explicit that the learning
>> table should be maintained at all times.
>>     
>
> Looks good, thanks.
>   

Thanks, pushed.




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