From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org,
"David S . Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Hauke Mehrtens" <hauke@hauke-m.de>,
"Dave Taht" <dave.taht@gmail.com>,
"Liping Zhang" <zlpnobody@gmail.com>,
"John Youn" <johnyoun@synopsys.com>,
"Rafał Miłecki" <rafal@milecki.pl>,
"James Hughes" <james.hughes@raspberrypi.org>,
"Felix Fietkau" <nbd@nbd.name>,
"Linus Lüssing" <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>,
"Nikolay Aleksandrov" <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/10] bridge: multicast to unicast
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:38:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190214103828.GA7273@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190214102436.5092-2-linus.walleij@linaro.org>
On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 11:24:27AM +0100, Linus Walleij wrote:
> From: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
>
> Implements an optional, per bridge port flag and feature to deliver
> multicast packets to any host on the according port via unicast
> individually. This is done by copying the packet per host and
> changing the multicast destination MAC to a unicast one accordingly.
>
> multicast-to-unicast works on top of the multicast snooping feature of
> the bridge. Which means unicast copies are only delivered to hosts which
> are interested in it and signalized this via IGMP/MLD reports
> previously.
>
> This feature is intended for interface types which have a more reliable
> and/or efficient way to deliver unicast packets than broadcast ones
> (e.g. wifi).
>
> However, it should only be enabled on interfaces where no IGMPv2/MLDv1
> report suppression takes place. This feature is disabled by default.
>
> The initial patch and idea is from Felix Fietkau.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@nbd.name>
> [linus.luessing@c0d3.blue: various bug + style fixes, commit message]
> Signed-off-by: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@c0d3.blue>
> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> ---
> include/linux/if_bridge.h | 1 +
> include/uapi/linux/if_link.h | 1 +
> net/bridge/br_forward.c | 39 +++++++++++++++-
> net/bridge/br_mdb.c | 2 +-
> net/bridge/br_multicast.c | 90 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
> net/bridge/br_netlink.c | 5 ++
> net/bridge/br_private.h | 3 +-
> net/bridge/br_sysfs_if.c | 2 +
> 8 files changed, 114 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
What is the git commit id of this patch upstream? I need that on the
patches themselves.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-02-14 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-02-14 10:24 [PATCH 00/10] Stable material from OpenWrt Linus Walleij
2019-02-14 10:24 ` [PATCH 01/10] bridge: multicast to unicast Linus Walleij
2019-02-14 10:38 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2019-02-14 10:24 ` [PATCH 02/10] smsc95xx: Use skb_cow_head to deal with cloned skbs Linus Walleij
2019-02-14 10:24 ` [PATCH 03/10] ch9200: use skb_cow_head() " Linus Walleij
2019-02-14 10:24 ` [PATCH 04/10] kaweth: " Linus Walleij
2019-02-14 10:24 ` [PATCH 05/10] ubifs: Drop softlimit and delta fields from struct ubifs_wbuf Linus Walleij
2019-02-14 10:24 ` [PATCH 06/10] ubifs: Use dirty_writeback_interval value for wbuf timer Linus Walleij
2019-02-14 10:24 ` [PATCH 07/10] usb: dwc2: Remove unnecessary kfree Linus Walleij
2019-02-14 10:24 ` [PATCH 08/10] netfilter: nf_tables: fix mismatch in big-endian system Linus Walleij
2019-02-14 10:24 ` [PATCH 09/10] net: Allow class-e address assignment via ifconfig ioctl Linus Walleij
2019-02-14 10:24 ` [PATCH 10/10] uapi/if_ether.h: prevent redefinition of struct ethhdr Linus Walleij
2019-02-14 10:42 ` [PATCH 00/10] Stable material from OpenWrt Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-02-14 11:58 ` Linus Walleij
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