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authorIdo Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>2015-10-28 12:16:54 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2015-10-30 06:26:38 +0300
commit741af0053b43d8b9a688a12c57ece62338616ae8 (patch)
tree2fa4b203e94bbc4ea74be2a3f417679ce6eea5df
parent65bdc43d2220bc97af037c87aba2407b46f13c2a (diff)
downloadlinux-741af0053b43d8b9a688a12c57ece62338616ae8.tar.xz
switchdev: Add support for flood control
Allow devices supporting this feature to control the flooding of unknown unicast traffic, by making switchdev infrastructure propagate this setting to the switch driver. Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt3
-rw-r--r--net/switchdev/switchdev.c5
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
index 0714fe555016..ce510e1a3e87 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt
@@ -298,6 +298,9 @@ packets up to the bridge driver for flooding. This is not ideal as the number
of ports scale in the L2 domain as the device is much more efficient at
flooding packets that software.
+If supported by the device, flood control can be offloaded to it, preventing
+certain netdevs from flooding unicast traffic for which there is no FDB entry.
+
IGMP Snooping
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/net/switchdev/switchdev.c b/net/switchdev/switchdev.c
index 1eb76956b439..8950d39af341 100644
--- a/net/switchdev/switchdev.c
+++ b/net/switchdev/switchdev.c
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@ int switchdev_port_bridge_getlink(struct sk_buff *skb, u32 pid, u32 seq,
.id = SWITCHDEV_ATTR_ID_PORT_BRIDGE_FLAGS,
};
u16 mode = BRIDGE_MODE_UNDEF;
- u32 mask = BR_LEARNING | BR_LEARNING_SYNC;
+ u32 mask = BR_LEARNING | BR_LEARNING_SYNC | BR_FLOOD;
int err;
err = switchdev_port_attr_get(dev, &attr);
@@ -817,6 +817,9 @@ static int switchdev_port_br_setlink_protinfo(struct net_device *dev,
err = switchdev_port_br_setflag(dev, attr,
BR_LEARNING_SYNC);
break;
+ case IFLA_BRPORT_UNICAST_FLOOD:
+ err = switchdev_port_br_setflag(dev, attr, BR_FLOOD);
+ break;
default:
err = -EOPNOTSUPP;
break;