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Message-Id: <20160416.190729.1734034862162629026.davem@davemloft.net> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 19:07:29 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com Cc: netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel@...oirfairelinux.com, f.fainelli@...il.com, andrew@...n.ch Subject: Re: [PATCH net 0/3] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: fix hardware cross-chip bridging From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com> Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2016 14:42:06 -0400 > In order to accelerate cross-chip switching of frames with the hardware, > the DSA Tag ports, used to interconnect switch devices, must learn SA > and DA addresses, and share the same FDB with the user ports. > > The two first patches restore address learning on DSA links. This fixes > hardware cross-chip bridging in a VLAN filtering enabled system, which > implements a bridge group as a 802.1Q VLAN and thus share an isolated > address database between DSA and user ports. > > The third patch changes the distinct default databases used for each > port, to the same address database. This fixes the hardware cross-chip > bridging in a VLAN filtering disabled system, where a bridge group gets > implemented only as a port-based VLAN. Series applied, thanks.
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