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Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:12:15 -0700
From: Saeed Mahameed <saeed@kernel.org>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Tariq Toukan <tariqt@nvidia.com>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@nvidia.com>, Mark Bloch <mbloch@nvidia.com>,
	Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>, Moshe Shemesh <moshe@nvidia.com>,
	Dragos Tatulea <dtatulea@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/mlx5e: Enable mac forwarding on uplink
 representor
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References: <20260310104841.1862380-1-tariqt@nvidia.com>
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On 11 Mar 20:33, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>On Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:48:41 +0200 Tariq Toukan wrote:
>> This small patch enables mac forwarding to MPFs via uplink representor,
>
>"mac forwarding to MPF via uplink representor"
>Can't wrap my head around this "via". Could you explain this better?
>Perhaps some tool can spit out a little diagram to make the flow clear?
>

Mac forwarding in the sense of linux bridge mac forwarding mechanism which
requires set_rx_mode ndo to be implemented. 

Linux-bridge --> mlx5-uplink-rep --> set_rx_mode --> set up mac in HW.

Thanks,
Saeed.