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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com>
To: "Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
Cc: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org>,
	"b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org"
	<b.a.t.m.a.n@lists.open-mesh.org>,
	David Bauer <mail@david-bauer.net>
Subject: Re: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH v2] batman-adv: Add multicast-to-unicast support for multiple targets
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 14:16:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190214140633.GI2363@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190214134452.GA1602@otheros>

Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 02:44:52PM CET, linus.luessing@c0d3.blue wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 01:46:35PM +0100, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
>> On Thursday, 14 February 2019 13:43:01 CET Linus Lüssing wrote:
>> > 
>> > +What:           /sys/class/net/<mesh_iface>/mesh/multicast_fanout
>> > +Date:           Feb 2019
>> > +Contact:        Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
>> > +Description:
>> > +                Defines the maximum number of packet copies that may
>> > +               be generated for a multicast-to-unicast conversion.
>> > +               Once this limit is exceeded distribution will fall
>> > +               back to broadcast.
>> > +
>> 
>> No new sysfs config files.
>
>Why? The bridge for instance does the same.

I would recommend to add new options only to netlink to force userspace
tools to use it  and eventually phase-out sysfs usage..

      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-14 14:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-14 12:43 [B.A.T.M.A.N.] [PATCH v2] batman-adv: Add multicast-to-unicast support for multiple targets Linus Lüssing
2019-02-14 12:46 ` Sven Eckelmann
2019-02-14 13:44   ` Linus Lüssing
2019-02-14 14:04     ` Sven Eckelmann
2019-02-15 17:20       ` Linus Lüssing
2019-02-14 14:16     ` Jiri Pirko [this message]

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