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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt | 3 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt index 0714fe5..ce510e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/switchdev.txt @@ -298,6 +298,9 @@ packets up to the bridge driver for flooding. This is not ideal as the number of ports scale in the L2 domain as the device is much more efficient at flooding packets that software. +If supported by the device, flood control can be offloaded to it, preventing +certain netdevs from flooding unicast traffic for which there is no FDB entry. + IGMP Snooping ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |
