> > Thanks for the explanation. So i think the key part which you said > > above is: > > > > At the same time, the bridge will also forward the packet to every > > mrouter port so that listeners beyond mrouter ports can receive that > > multicast packet as well. > > > > How does the bridge know about the mrouter port? It seems like the > > The bridge learns about the existence of the Querier by the reception of > Queries. The bridge will mark the port which it received Queries from as the > mrouter port. > > > bridge needs to pass that information down to the switch. Is the > > The bridge does pass that information down to switchdev. Patch 5 adds DSA > handling of that event as well. Patches 9 and 10 adds the support in the > mv88e6xxx driver. I've not been looking at the details too much for this patchset. It does however seem that some parts are controversial, and others just seem like a bug fix. Does it make sense to split this into two patchsets? Andrew
