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switchdev: Add support for flood control

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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>
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Ido Schimmel
2015-10-28 10:16:54 +01:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 65bdc43d22
commit 741af0053b
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@@ -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.
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