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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: idosch@idosch.org, andrew@lunn.ch, horatiu.vultur@microchip.com,
	alexandre.belloni@bootlin.com, UNGLinuxDriver@microchip.com,
	allan.nielsen@microchip.com, ivecera@redhat.com,
	f.fainelli@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] net: core: Notify on changes to dev->promiscuity.
Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 09:21:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190830072133.GP2312@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190830.001223.669650763835949848.davem@davemloft.net>

Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 09:12:23AM CEST, davem@davemloft.net wrote:
>From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
>Date: Fri, 30 Aug 2019 08:36:24 +0200
>
>> The promiscuity is a way to setup the rx filter. So promics == rx filter
>> off. For normal nics, where there is no hw fwd datapath,
>> this coincidentally means all received packets go to cpu.
>
>You cannot convince me that the HW datapath isn't a "rx filter" too, sorry.

If you look at it that way, then we have 2: rx_filter and hw_rx_filter.
The point is, those 2 are not one item, that is the point I'm trying to
make :/

  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-30  7:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-29  9:22 [PATCH v3 0/2] net: core: Notify on changes to dev->promiscuity Horatiu Vultur
2019-08-29  9:22 ` [PATCH v3 1/2] " Horatiu Vultur
2019-08-29  9:51   ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-29 10:56     ` Horatiu Vultur
2019-08-29 12:18       ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-29 12:44         ` Horatiu Vultur
2019-08-29 12:55           ` Ivan Vecera
2019-08-29 13:15             ` Andrew Lunn
2019-08-29 13:39               ` Ivan Vecera
2019-08-29 13:15             ` Horatiu Vultur
2019-08-29 13:26     ` Andrew Lunn
2019-08-29 13:49       ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-29 14:37         ` Andrew Lunn
2019-08-29 17:57           ` Ido Schimmel
2019-08-29 18:29             ` Andrew Lunn
2019-08-29 19:36               ` Ido Schimmel
2019-08-29 22:12                 ` David Miller
2019-08-30  5:39                   ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-30  6:02                     ` David Miller
2019-08-30  6:36                       ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-30  6:54                         ` Ivan Vecera
2019-08-30  7:13                           ` David Miller
2019-08-30  7:12                         ` David Miller
2019-08-30  7:21                           ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2019-08-30  7:32                             ` David Miller
2019-08-30  8:01                               ` Jiri Pirko
2019-09-02 17:42                         ` Allan W. Nielsen
2019-09-02 17:51                           ` Jiri Pirko
2019-09-02 18:05                             ` Allan W. Nielsen
2019-09-02 18:45                               ` Jiri Pirko
2019-09-03  6:13                           ` Ido Schimmel
2019-09-03  8:14                             ` Allan W. Nielsen
2019-09-08 10:15                               ` Ido Schimmel
2019-08-30  9:43                   ` Ido Schimmel
2019-08-31 19:35                     ` Andrew Lunn
2019-08-31 20:47                       ` Ido Schimmel
2019-09-01 18:48                         ` Andrew Lunn
2019-09-02 17:55                           ` Allan W. Nielsen
2019-09-01  6:54                       ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-29 22:10               ` David Miller
2019-08-29 22:08             ` David Miller
2019-08-30  6:13           ` Jiri Pirko
2019-08-30  6:18             ` David Miller
2019-08-30  7:26             ` Ivan Vecera
2019-08-29  9:22 ` [PATCH v3 2/2] net: mscc: Implement promisc mode Horatiu Vultur

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