On Wed, Jul 8, 2015 at 9:27 PM, Simon Horman <simon.hor...@netronome.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 04:16:43PM -0700, sfel...@gmail.com wrote: >> From: Scott Feldman <sfel...@gmail.com> >> >> Signed-off-by: Scott Feldman <sfel...@gmail.com> >> --- >> Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt | 14 ++++++++++++-- >> 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt >> b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt >> index c5d7ade..b864e47 100644 >> --- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt >> +++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt >> @@ -279,8 +279,18 @@ and unknown unicast packets to all ports in domain, if >> allowed by port's >> current STP state. The switch driver, knowing which ports are within which >> vlan L2 domain, can program the switch device for flooding. The packet >> should >> also be sent to the port netdev for processing by the bridge driver. The >> -bridge should not reflood the packet to the same ports the device flooded. >> -XXX: the mechanism to avoid duplicate flood packets is being discuseed. >> +bridge should not reflood the packet to the same ports the device flooded, >> +otherwise there will be duplicate packets on the wire. >> + >> +To avoid duplicate packets, the device/driver can mark a packet as already > > I wonder if 'should' or 'may' would be clearer than 'can'.
'should' sounds better; v2. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
