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From: "Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
To: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, roopa@cumulusnetworks.com,
	bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: bridge: add per-port multicast flood flag
Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 03:37:26 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160831013726.GD4883@otheros> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1472570588-32503-3-git-send-email-nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>

On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 05:23:08PM +0200, Nikolay Aleksandrov via Bridge wrote:
> diff --git a/net/bridge/br_if.c b/net/bridge/br_if.c
> index 1da3221845f1..ed0dd3340084 100644
> --- a/net/bridge/br_if.c
> +++ b/net/bridge/br_if.c
> @@ -362,7 +362,7 @@ static struct net_bridge_port *new_nbp(struct net_bridge *br,
>  	p->path_cost = port_cost(dev);
>  	p->priority = 0x8000 >> BR_PORT_BITS;
>  	p->port_no = index;
> -	p->flags = BR_LEARNING | BR_FLOOD;
> +	p->flags = BR_LEARNING | BR_FLOOD | BR_MCAST_FLOOD;

I'm discontent with this new flag becoming the default.

Could you elaborate a little more on your use-case, when/why do
you want/need this flag?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-08-31  1:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-08-30 15:23 [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] net: bridge: add per-port unknown multicast flood control Nikolay Aleksandrov via Bridge
2016-08-30 15:23 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/2] net: bridge: change unicast boolean to exact Nikolay Aleksandrov
2016-08-30 15:23 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/2] net: bridge: add per-port multicast flood flag Nikolay Aleksandrov via Bridge
2016-08-31  1:37   ` Linus Lüssing [this message]
2016-08-31  6:02     ` Nikolay Aleksandrov via Bridge
2016-08-31  6:14       ` Nikolay Aleksandrov via Bridge
2016-08-31 17:28       ` [Bridge] " Linus Lüssing

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