From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel@savoirfairelinux.com, f.fainelli@gmail.com,
andrew@lunn.ch, jcobham@questertangent.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: add cross-chip multicast support
Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 15:21:54 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170616.152154.1388838024873603347.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170615201448.22424-1-vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2017 16:14:48 -0400
> Similarly to how cross-chip VLAN works, define a bitmap of multicast
> group members for a switch, now including its DSA ports, so that
> multicast traffic can be sent to all switches of the fabric.
>
> A switch may drop the frames if no user port is a member.
>
> This brings support for multicast in a multi-chip environment.
> As of now, all switches of the fabric must support the multicast
> operations in order to program a single fabric port.
>
> Reported-by: Jason Cobham <jcobham@questertangent.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>
Applied, thanks Vivien.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-06-16 19:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-06-15 20:14 [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: add cross-chip multicast support Vivien Didelot
2017-06-15 23:33 ` Jason Cobham
2017-06-16 0:34 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-06-16 19:21 ` David Miller [this message]
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