Re: [PATCH 0/6] realtek: fix management of mdb entries

[Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch>]

> > If the DSA subsystem could handle the "merging" instead and also call
> > port_mdb_add/port_mdb_del as appropriate for multicast router ports, the
> > individual drivers wouldn't have to deal with this particular issue at all.
> > 
> > > As a way to fix a bug quickly and get correct behavior, I guess there's
> > > also the option of stopping to process multicast packets in hardware,
> > > and configure the switch to always send any multicast to the CPU port
> > > only. As long as the tagger knows to leave skb->offload_fwd_mark unset,
> > > the bridge driver should know how to deal with those packets in
> > > software, and forward them only to whom is interested. But the drawback
> > > is that there is no forwarding acceleration involved. Maybe DSA should
> > > have done that from the get go for drivers which didn't care about
> > > multicast in particular, instead of ending up with this current situation
> > > which appears to be slightly chaotic.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Jan
> 
> Andrew, Florian, do you have any additional comments here?

I've no real experience with this either. But it sounds like this
merging should be pulled up into the bridge, if all switchdev drivers
need it.

     Andrew