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In controlled flood mode, for each bridge FID family (i.e., 802.1Q and 802.1D) and packet type (i.e., UUC/MC/BC), the hardware needs to be told which PGT address to use as the base address for the flood table and how to determine the offset from the base for each FID. The above is not needed in CFF mode where each FID has its own flood table instead of the FID family itself. Therefore, create a new FID family operation for the above configuration and only implement it for the 802.1Q and 802.1D families in controlled flood mode. No functional changes intended. Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/06f71415eec75811585ec597e1dd101b6dff77e7.1701183892.git.petrm@nvidia.com Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.