Re: [PATCH AUTOSEL 7.0] dsa: tag_mxl862xx: set dsa_default_offload_fwd_mark()

[Daniel Golle]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2026 at 09:19:07AM -0400, Sasha Levin wrote:
> From: Daniel Golle <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> [ Upstream commit 4250ff1640ea1ede99bfe02ca949acbcc6c0927f ]
> 
> The MxL862xx offloads bridge forwarding in hardware, so set
> dsa_default_offload_fwd_mark() to avoid duplicate forwarding of
> packets of (eg. flooded) frames arriving at the CPU port.
> 
> Link-local frames are directly trapped to the CPU port only, so don't
> set dsa_default_offload_fwd_mark() on those.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Golle <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/e1161c90894ddc519c57dc0224b3a0f6bfa1d2d6.1775049897.git.daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> LLM Generated explanations, may be completely bogus:
> 
> Now I have all the information needed for a complete analysis.

This commit should NOT be backported, it only makes sense with bridge
offloading implemented, which only happened with commit 340bdf984613c
("net: dsa: mxl862xx: implement bridge offloading").