From: Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2017 14:54:39 +0100
> From: Jiri Pirko <j...@mellanox.com> > > Nogah says: > > When multicast is enabled, the Linux bridge floods unregistered multicast > packets only to ports connected to a multicast router. Devices capable of > offloading the Linux bridge need to be made aware of such ports, for > proper flooding behavior. > On the other hand, when multicast is disabled, such packets should be > flooded to all ports. This patchset aims to fix that, by offloading > the multicast state and the list of multicast router ports. > > The first 3 patches adds switchdev attributes to offload this data. > The rest of the patchset add implementation for handling this data in the > mlxsw driver. > > The effects this data has on the MDB (namely, when the multicast is > disabled the MDB should be considered as invalid, and when it is enabled, a > packet that is flooded by it should also be flooded to the multicast > routers ports) is subject of future work. > > Testing of this patchset included: > Sending 3 mc packets streams, LL, register and unregistered, and checking > that they reached only to the ports that should have received them. > The configs were: > mc disabled, mc without mc router ports and mc with fixed router port. > It was checked for vlan aware bridge, vlan unaware bridge and vlan unaware > bridge with another vlan unaware bridge on the same machine Series applied, thanks.
