This allows us to use the bridge as a managed switch and gracefully
handle mixed tagged and untagged frames. Prior to this, the only
alternative was creating one bridge per vlan which quickly becomes a
nightmare and still won't let you mix both tagged and untagged frames on
the physical port without some complex ebtables magic.
This is in line with the notion that OpenWRT is the network go-to swiss
army knife when you need a nice set-and-forget, low maintenance box to
handle a specific task.
Current builds of the ip-bridge package already fully support this
feature so the only requirement is enabling the kernel config.
This is disabled by default so existing bridge configurations will not
be affected. This patch only gives the ability to turn it on with an
'ip link' command. If there is interest, I could look into making the
feature accessible via uci configuration.
It causes about 3.1% hit on raw bridging speed, which is relatively
trivial considering that I had to use 300 byte packets to strain the CPU
enough to notice a slowdown at all. The ER8 would chug along at wire
speed otherwise, and that's using only one core. Since the typical
bridge use case on OpenWRT is wireless, I doubt it would be noticeable
at all.
With BRIDGE_VLAN_FILTERING
iperf -u -c 192.168.1.105 -b 1G -l 300
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.1.105, UDP port 5001
Sending 300 byte datagrams, IPG target: 2.24 us (kalman adjust)
UDP buffer size: 208 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 192.168.1.12 port 58045 connected with 192.168.1.105 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 977 MBytes 820 Mbits/sec
[ 3] Sent 3414986 datagrams
[ 3] Server Report:
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 811 MBytes 680 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms
581210/3414986 (0%)
Without BRIDGE_VLAN_FILTERING
iperf -u -c 192.168.1.105 -b 1G -l 300
------------------------------------------------------------
Client connecting to 192.168.1.105, UDP port 5001
Sending 300 byte datagrams, IPG target: 2.24 us (kalman adjust)
UDP buffer size: 208 KByte (default)
------------------------------------------------------------
[ 3] local 192.168.1.12 port 36645 connected with 192.168.1.105 port 5001
[ ID] Interval Transfer Bandwidth
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 977 MBytes 820 Mbits/sec
[ 3] Sent 3414990 datagrams
[ 3] Server Report:
[ 3] 0.0-10.0 sec 836 MBytes 701 Mbits/sec 0.000 ms
493950/3414990 (0%)
In terms of kernel size, it uses 16KB (6753K vs 6737K on ER8) so a
0.002% hit. The exact 16KB is probably just due to how the kernel is
compressed.
Suggested-by: Jonathan Thibault <jonathan@navigue.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@makrotopia.org>
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