netdev - Re: [patch net-next v2 0/7] mlxsw: Add support for partial multicast route offload

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Message-Id: <20171003.100714.851090545020567686.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 03 Oct 2017 10:07:14 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jiri@...nulli.us
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, yotamg@...lanox.com, idosch@...lanox.com,
        mlxsw@...lanox.com, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com, andrew@...n.ch,
        dsa@...ulusnetworks.com, edumazet@...gle.com, willemb@...gle.com,
        johannes.berg@...el.com, dcaratti@...hat.com, pabeni@...hat.com,
        daniel@...earbox.net, f.fainelli@...il.com, fw@...len.de,
        gfree.wind@....163.com
Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 0/7] mlxsw: Add support for partial
 multicast route offload

From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Date: Tue,  3 Oct 2017 09:58:05 +0200

> From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>
> 
> Yotam says:
> 
> Previous patchset introduced support for offloading multicast MFC routes to
> the Spectrum hardware. As described in that patchset, no partial offloading
> is supported, i.e if a route has one output interface which is not a valid
> offloadable device (e.g. pimreg device, dummy device, management NIC), the
> route is trapped to the CPU and the forwarding is done in slow-path.
> 
> Add support for partial offloading of multicast routes, by letting the
> hardware to forward the packet to all the in-hardware devices, while the
> kernel ipmr module will continue forwarding to all other interfaces.
 ...

Series applied, thanks.