Re: [PATCH net-next 0/6] mv88e6xxx broadcast flooding in hardware

[Vivien Didelot]

Hi Andrew,

Andrew Lunn <and...@lunn.ch> writes:

> This patchset makes the mv88e6xxx driver perform flooding in hardware,
> rather than let the software bridge perform the flooding. This is a
> prerequisite for IGMP snooping on the bridge interface.
>
> In order to make hardware broadcasting work, a few other issues need
> fixing or improving. SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_PARENT_ID is broken, which
> is apparent when testing on the ZII devel board with multiple
> switches.
>
> Some of these patches are taken from a previous RFC patchset of IGMP
> support. Hence the v2 comments...

mlxsw and others return BR_FLOOD and BR_MCAST_FLOOD in
SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_BRIDGE_FLAGS_SUPPORT, is this something DSA needs
here?


Thanks,

        Vivien