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Commit 5d37636a authored by David S. Miller's avatar David S. Miller
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Merge branch 'IGMP-snooping-for-local-traffic'



Andrew Lunn says:

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IGMP snooping for local traffic

The linux bridge supports IGMP snooping. It will listen to IGMP
reports on bridge ports and keep track of which groups have been
joined on an interface. It will then forward multicast based on this
group membership.

When the bridge adds or removed groups from an interface, it uses
switchdev to request the hardware add an mdb to a port, so the
hardware can perform the selective forwarding between ports.

What is not covered by the current bridge code, is IGMP joins/leaves
from the host on the brX interface. These are not reported via
switchdev so that hardware knows the local host is interested in the
multicast frames.

Luckily, the bridge does track joins/leaves on the brX interface. The
code is obfusticated, which is why i missed it with my first attempt.
So the first patch tries to remove this obfustication. Currently,
there is no notifications sent when the bridge interface joins a
group. The second patch adds them. bridge monitor then shows
joins/leaves in the same way as for other ports of the bridge.

Then starts the work passing down to the hardware that the host has
joined/left a group. The existing switchdev mdb object cannot be used,
since the semantics are different. The existing
SWITCHDEV_OBJ_ID_PORT_MDB is used to indicate a specific multicast
group should be forwarded out that port of the switch. However here we
require the exact opposite. We want multicast frames for the group
received on the port to the forwarded to the host. Hence add a new
object SWITCHDEV_OBJ_ID_HOST_MDB, a multicast database entry to
forward to the host. This new object is then propagated through the
DSA layers. No DSA driver changes should be needed, this should just
work...

This version fixes up the nitpick from Nikolay, removes an unrelated
white space change, and adds in a patch adding a few const attributes
to a couple of functions taking a port parameter, in order to stop the
following patch produces warnings.
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Acked-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parents 4dc6758d ae45102c
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