On 17 Mar 14:36, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

On Tue, 17 Mar 2026 11:12:15 -0700 Saeed Mahameed wrote:

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On 11 Mar 20:33, Jakub Kicinski wrote:

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On Tue, 10 Mar 2026 12:48:41 +0200 Tariq Toukan wrote:

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This small patch enables mac forwarding to MPFs via uplink representor,

"mac forwarding to MPF via uplink representor"
Can't wrap my head around this "via". Could you explain this better?
Perhaps some tool can spit out a little diagram to make the flow clear?

Mac forwarding in the sense of linux bridge mac forwarding mechanism which
requires set_rx_mode ndo to be implemented.

Linux-bridge --> mlx5-uplink-rep --> set_rx_mode --> set up mac in HW.

And the actual forwarding happens in SW bridge? This is just to
configure the Rx filter not to discard on Rx?

Yes Forwarding happens on the SW bridge, just to register the mac so it
won't get dropped.