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From: Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
To: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@citrix.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org>,
	Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>,
	Wei Liu <wei.liu2@citrix.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] xen-netback: add support for multicast control
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 15:00:49 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150902140049.GI18474@zion.uk.xensource.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1441196393-26564-1-git-send-email-paul.durrant@citrix.com>

On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 01:19:53PM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote:
> Xen's PV network protocol includes messages to add/remove ethernet
> multicast addresses to/from a filter list in the backend. This allows
> the frontend to request the backend only forward multicast packets
> which are off interest thus preventing unnecessary noise on the shared

"of interest"

> ring.
> 
[...]
> +
> +void xenvif_mcast_flush(struct xenvif *vif)

Only one cosmetic comment.

My first impression of this function by looking at the name is that it
flushes queued multicast packets. Maybe we can rename it to
xenvif_mcast_addr_list_free ?

Wei.

  reply	other threads:[~2015-09-02 14:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-09-02 12:19 [PATCH net-next] xen-netback: add support for multicast control Paul Durrant
2015-09-02 14:00 ` Wei Liu [this message]
2015-09-02 14:01   ` Paul Durrant

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