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| author | Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com> | 2015-10-28 09:16:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-10-30 03:26:38 (GMT) |
| commit | 741af0053b43d8b9a688a12c57ece62338616ae8 (patch) | |
| tree | 2fa4b203e94bbc4ea74be2a3f417679ce6eea5df /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | 65bdc43d2220bc97af037c87aba2407b46f13c2a (diff) | |
| download | linux-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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt index 0714fe5..ce510e1 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 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |