From: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>
To: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>
Cc: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@savoirfairelinux.com>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 net-next 0/5] IGMP snooping for local traffic
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 21:21:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171109202156.GL13277@lunn.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1067aa67-1a49-643f-85d2-e3d8a34a6db1@gmail.com>
On Thu, Nov 09, 2017 at 11:38:26AM -0800, Florian Fainelli wrote:
> On 11/09/2017 11:30 AM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >> This means that switchdev drivers won't ever have to treat a HOST_MDB
> >> notification any differently than a PORT_MDB notification
> >
> > No, they need to treat it very differently.
>
> Allow me to rephrase, switchdev drivers will ignore HOST_MDB
> notifications because that does not resolve to something they can do
> something about.
Hi Florian
Yes, they can. In fact, if they want to support IGMP snooping on the
bridge interface, they have to. How else do they know to forward
traffic to the host?
> Fine, then add a boolean to the PORT_MDB notification that says ingress
> or egress and voila, or am I missing something?
But since the semantics are so different, why not just have a
different messages?
Andrew
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-11-09 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-11-06 23:26 [PATCH v3 net-next 0/5] IGMP snooping for local traffic Andrew Lunn
2017-11-06 23:26 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 1/5] net: bridge: Rename mglist to host_joined Andrew Lunn
2017-11-08 1:31 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2017-11-08 1:40 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-06 23:26 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 2/5] net: bridge: Send notification when host join/leaves a group Andrew Lunn
2017-11-08 1:39 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2017-11-08 1:41 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-06 23:26 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 3/5] net: bridge: Add/del switchdev object on host join/leave Andrew Lunn
2017-11-08 1:48 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2017-11-06 23:26 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 4/5] net: dsa: slave: Handle switchdev host mdb add/del Andrew Lunn
2017-11-06 23:26 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 5/5] net: dsa: switch: Don't add CPU port to an mdb by default Andrew Lunn
2017-11-07 10:12 ` Sergei Shtylyov
2017-11-07 1:01 ` [PATCH v3 net-next 0/5] IGMP snooping for local traffic Stephen Hemminger
2017-11-07 17:03 ` Vivien Didelot
2017-11-07 17:42 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-07 18:10 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-07 18:16 ` Vivien Didelot
2017-11-07 21:01 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-07 21:18 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-07 22:17 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-07 22:37 ` Vivien Didelot
2017-11-07 23:17 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-08 0:41 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-09 18:41 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-09 19:30 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-09 19:38 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-09 20:21 ` Andrew Lunn [this message]
2017-11-09 20:35 ` Florian Fainelli
2017-11-09 21:13 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-09 21:40 ` Ido Schimmel
2017-11-07 17:34 ` Egil Hjelmeland
2017-11-07 17:58 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-08 15:11 ` Egil Hjelmeland
2017-11-08 15:21 ` Andrew Lunn
2017-11-08 15:53 ` Vivien Didelot
2017-11-09 2:30 ` David Miller
2017-11-09 2:47 ` David Miller
2017-11-09 14:44 ` Vivien Didelot
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