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From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@gmail.com>
Cc: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, idosch@mellanox.com,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>,
	andrew@lunn.ch, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [RFC net-next] net: dsa: add support for MC_DISABLED attribute
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 23:09:41 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190621220941.zaqbaf4wpnxnvoy5@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190621172952.GB9284@t480s.localdomain>

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 05:29:52PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Russell, Ido, Florian, so far I understand that a multicast-unaware
> bridge must flood unknown traffic everywhere (CPU included);
                           ^
			multicast

> and a multicast-aware bridge must only flood its ports if their
                                              ^
				unknown multicast traffic to

> mcast_flood is on, and known traffic targeting the bridge must be
> offloaded accordingly. Do you guys agree with this?

I don't see a problem with that with the clarification that we're
talking about multicast packets here.

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-06-21 22:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-06-20 23:56 [RFC net-next] net: dsa: add support for MC_DISABLED attribute Vivien Didelot
2019-06-21  2:24 ` Florian Fainelli
2019-06-21 21:29   ` Vivien Didelot
2019-06-21 22:09     ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin [this message]
2019-06-23  7:09     ` Ido Schimmel
2019-06-23  7:26       ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-06-23  7:44         ` Ido Schimmel
2019-06-29 16:29           ` Ido Schimmel
2019-06-30 16:56             ` Linus Lüssing
2019-07-02 14:27               ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2019-07-02 17:11               ` Ido Schimmel
     [not found]                 ` <20190702231308.GA2414@otheros>
2019-07-07  9:07                   ` Ido Schimmel
2019-07-05 16:01       ` Vivien Didelot
2019-07-07 10:28         ` Ido Schimmel
2019-06-23  6:48   ` Ido Schimmel
2019-06-29 15:31     ` Ido Schimmel
2019-06-29 23:06       ` Andrew Lunn

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