Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 22 May 2014 15:37:42 -0400 (EDT) | Subject | Re: bridge: multicast snooping patches / exports | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Linus Lüssing <linus.luessing@web.de> Date: Wed, 21 May 2014 10:58:58 +0200
> These two patches are exporting functionality needed to marry the bridge > multicast snooping with the batman-adv multicast optimizations recently > added for the 3.15 kernel, allowing to use these optimzations in common > setups having a bridge on top of e.g. bat0, too. So far these bridged > setups would fall back to simple flooding through the batman-adv mesh > network for any multicast packet entering bat0. > > More information about the batman-adv multicast optimizations currently > implemented can be found here: > > http://www.open-mesh.org/projects/batman-adv/wiki/Basic-multicast-optimizations > > The integration on the batman-adv side could afterwards look like this, > for instance: > > http://git.open-mesh.org/batman-adv.git/commitdiff/576b59dd3e34737c702e548b21fa72059262f796?hp=f95ce7131746c65fbcdffcf2089cab59e2c2f7ac
I'd really like to see some feedback from bridge folks before applying this, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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