Main goal of the patchset is to allow for flooding offload to switchdev in scenarios when HW switchdev ports and SW ports are operating in a single bridge.
In case a data frame that needs to be flooded is ingressed on a SW port, it needs to be flooded to a single HW port of any given switchdev-capable hardware only. Switchdev hardware will than take care about flooding to the rest of the ports that it manages. Igor Mitsyanko (5): bridge: initialize port flags with switchdev defaults bridge: propagate BR_ flags updates through sysfs to switchdev bridge: allow switchdev port to handle flooding by itself bridge: provide sysfs and netlink interface to set BR_FLOOD_OFFLOAD bridge: verify "HW only" flags can't be set without HW support include/linux/if_bridge.h | 1 + include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 1 + net/bridge/br_forward.c | 2 ++ net/bridge/br_if.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++- net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 8 +++++++- net/bridge/br_private.h | 13 ++++++++++++- net/bridge/br_switchdev.c | 14 +++++++++++++- net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c | 17 +++++++++++++---- 8 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) -- 2.9.5