Re: [PATCH net-next] net: dsa: add cross-chip multicast support

From: Florian Fainelli
Date: Thu Jun 15 2017 - 20:34:46 EST


On 06/15/2017 01:14 PM, Vivien Didelot wrote:
> Similarly to how cross-chip VLAN works, define a bitmap of multicast
> group members for a switch, now including its DSA ports, so that
> multicast traffic can be sent to all switches of the fabric.
>
> A switch may drop the frames if no user port is a member.
>
> This brings support for multicast in a multi-chip environment.
> As of now, all switches of the fabric must support the multicast
> operations in order to program a single fabric port.
>
> Reported-by: Jason Cobham <jcobham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
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Florian