Re: [RFC net-next] net: dsa: add support for MC_DISABLED attribute

Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-06-21T22:09:49Z

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 05:29:52PM -0400, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Russell, Ido, Florian, so far I understand that a multicast-unaware
> bridge must flood unknown traffic everywhere (CPU included);
^
multicast

> and a multicast-aware bridge must only flood its ports if their
^
unknown multicast traffic to

> mcast_flood is on, and known traffic targeting the bridge must be
> offloaded accordingly. Do you guys agree with this?

I don't see a problem with that with the clarification that we're
talking about multicast packets here.

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