Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: dsa: {e}dsa: set offload_fwd_mark on received packets

2017-09-27 Thread Andrew Lunn
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 12:46:35PM -0700, Florian Fainelli wrote: > On 09/26/2017 03:25 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: > > The software bridge needs to know if a packet has already been bridged > > by hardware offload to ports in the same hardware offload, in order > > that it does not re-flood them, causi

Re: [PATCH net-next 2/6] net: dsa: {e}dsa: set offload_fwd_mark on received packets

2017-09-27 Thread Florian Fainelli
On 09/26/2017 03:25 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote: > The software bridge needs to know if a packet has already been bridged > by hardware offload to ports in the same hardware offload, in order > that it does not re-flood them, causing duplicates. This is > particularly true for broadcast and multicast tra

[PATCH net-next 2/6] net: dsa: {e}dsa: set offload_fwd_mark on received packets

2017-09-26 Thread Andrew Lunn
The software bridge needs to know if a packet has already been bridged by hardware offload to ports in the same hardware offload, in order that it does not re-flood them, causing duplicates. This is particularly true for broadcast and multicast traffic which the host has requested. By setting offl