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>
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 @@
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 1eb76956..8950d39 100644
--- a/net/switchdev/switchdev.c
+++ b/net/switchdev/switchdev.c
@@ -746,7 +746,7 @@
.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 @@
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;