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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst index 20baacf2bc5c..89bb4fa4c362 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/dsa/dsa.rst @@ -200,19 +200,6 @@ receive all frames regardless of the value of the MAC DA. This can be done by setting the ``promisc_on_master`` property of the ``struct dsa_device_ops``. Note that this assumes a DSA-unaware master driver, which is the norm. -Hardware manufacturers are strongly discouraged to do this, but some tagging -protocols might not provide source port information on RX for all packets, but -e.g. only for control traffic (link-local PDUs). In this case, by implementing -the ``filter`` method of ``struct dsa_device_ops``, the tagger might select -which packets are to be redirected on RX towards the virtual DSA user network -interfaces, and which are to be left in the DSA master's RX data path. - -It might also happen (although silicon vendors are strongly discouraged to -produce hardware like this) that a tagging protocol splits the switch-specific -information into a header portion and a tail portion, therefore not falling -cleanly into any of the above 3 categories. DSA does not support this -configuration. - Master network devices ---------------------- @@ -663,6 +650,22 @@ Bridge layer CPU port, and flooding towards the CPU port should also be enabled, due to a lack of an explicit address filtering mechanism in the DSA core. +- ``port_bridge_tx_fwd_offload``: bridge layer function invoked after + ``port_bridge_join`` when a driver sets ``ds->num_fwd_offloading_bridges`` to + a non-zero value. Returning success in this function activates the TX + forwarding offload bridge feature for this port, which enables the tagging + protocol driver to inject data plane packets towards the bridging domain that + the port is a part of. Data plane packets are subject to FDB lookup, hardware + learning on the CPU port, and do not override the port STP state. + Additionally, replication of data plane packets (multicast, flooding) is + handled in hardware and the bridge driver will transmit a single skb for each + packet that needs replication. The method is provided as a configuration + point for drivers that need to configure the hardware for enabling this + feature. + +- ``port_bridge_tx_fwd_unoffload``: bridge layer function invoken when a driver + leaves a bridge port which had the TX forwarding offload feature enabled. + Bridge VLAN filtering --------------------- |