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In early LinkStreet silicon (e.g. 6095/6185), the per-VLAN STP states were kept in the VTU - there was no concept of a SID. Later, the information was split into two tables, where the VTU only tracked memberships and deferred the STP state tracking to the STU via a pointer (SID). This meant that a group of VLANs could share the same STU entry. Most likely, this was done to align with MSTP (802.1Q-2018, Clause 13), which is built on this principle. While the VTU is still 4k lines on most devices, the STU is capped at 64 entries. This means that the current stategy, updating STU info whenever a VTU entry is updated, can not easily support MSTP because: - The maximum number of VIDs would also be capped at 64, as we would have to allocate one SID for every VTU entry - even if many VLANs would effectively share the same MST. - MSTP updates would be unnecessarily slow as you would have to iterate over all VLANs that share the same MST. In order to support MSTP offloading in the future, manage the STU as a separate entity from the VTU. Only add support for newer hardware with separate VTU and STU. VTU-only devices can also be supported, but essentially this requires a software implementation of an STU (fanning out state changed to all VLANs tied to the same MST). Signed-off-by: Tobias Waldekranz <tobias@waldekranz.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.