netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: add support for BRIDGE

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Message-Id: <20190709.145012.1314139094883979747.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 09 Jul 2019 14:50:12 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vivien.didelot@...il.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux@...linux.org.uk,
        f.fainelli@...il.com, idosch@...lanox.com, andrew@...n.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: add support for BRIDGE_MROUTER
 attribute

From: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>
Date: Mon,  8 Jul 2019 23:31:13 -0400

> This patch adds support for enabling or disabling the flooding of
> unknown multicast traffic on the CPU ports, depending on the value
> of the switchdev SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_BRIDGE_MROUTER attribute.
> 
> The current behavior is kept unchanged but a user can now prevent
> the CPU conduit to be flooded with a lot of unregistered traffic that
> the network stack needs to filter in software with e.g.:
> 
>     echo 0 > /sys/class/net/br0/multicast_router
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...il.com>

Looks very reasonable and straightforward.

Applied, thanks.