netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 rfc 0/8] IGMP snooping for local traffic

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Date:   Wed, 6 Sep 2017 16:27:05 +0200
From:   John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>,
        Woojung.Huh@...rochip.com, jbe@...gutronix.de,
        sean.wang@...iatek.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 rfc 0/8] IGMP snooping for local traffic



On 06/09/17 02:47, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> Should this be done at the DSA level, or at the driver level?  Do any
> chips do broadcast flooding in hardware already? Hence they currently
> see broadcast duplication? If i add a broadcast mdb at the DSA level,
> and the chip is already hard wired to flooding broadcast, is it going
> to double flood?

Hi Andrew,

MT7530 and QCA8K only have a  "unknown mac fwd to port X" feature. both 
use the same HW table for FDB and MDB tables. so this should ideally be 
fixed on DSA level rather than fixing up those 2 drivers.

     John