On 03/10/17 10:58, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> From: Yotam Gigi <[email protected]>
> 
> Change the ipmr module to not forward packets if:
>  - The packet is marked with the offload_mr_fwd_mark, and
>  - Both input interface and output interface share the same parent ID.
> 
> This way, a packet can go through partial multicast forwarding in the
> hardware, where it will be forwarded only to the devices that share the
> same parent ID (AKA, reside inside the same hardware). The kernel will
> forward the packet to all other interfaces.
> 
> To do this, add the ipmr_offload_forward helper, which per skb, ingress VIF
> and egress VIF, returns whether the forwarding was offloaded to hardware.
> The ipmr_queue_xmit frees the skb and does not forward it if the result is
> a true value.
> 
> All the forwarding path code compiles out when the CONFIG_NET_SWITCHDEV is
> not set.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yotam Gigi <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <[email protected]>
> ---
> v1->v2:
>  - Use dev_parent_id.len field instead of the dev_parent_id_valid field
> ---
>  net/ipv4/ipmr.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
> index 1b161ad..b3ee01b 100644
> --- a/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
> +++ b/net/ipv4/ipmr.c
> @@ -1859,10 +1859,33 @@ static inline int ipmr_forward_finish(struct net 
> *net, struct sock *sk,
>       return dst_output(net, sk, skb);
>  }
>  

Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <[email protected]>


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