Re: [PATCH RFC WIP 0/5] IGMP snooping for local traffic

Hi Andrew,

Have you taken a look at mglist (the boolean, probably needs a rename) ? It is for
exactly that purpose, to track which groups the bridge is interested in.
I assume I'm forgetting or missing something here.

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performed. With a pure software bridge, it is not required. All
mulitcast frames are passed to the brX interface, and the network

If mglist (again the boolean) is false then they won't be passed up.

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stack filters them, as it does for any interface. However, when
hardware offload is involved, things change. We should program the
hardware to only send multcast packets to the host when the host has
in interest in them.

Granted the boolean mglist might need some changes (esp. with host group leave)
but I think it can be used to program switchdev for host join/leave, can't
we adjust its behaviour instead of introducing this complexity and avoid many
headaches ?

I would like to avoid this complexity as well. I will take a look at
mglist. Thanks for the hint.

	Andrew