From: "Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@cisco.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"sri@us.ibm.com" <sri@us.ibm.com>,
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Subject: RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode
Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 08:59:40 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F075501A1AE542A@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20111025154617.GB22553@redhat.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael S. Tsirkin [mailto:mst@redhat.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:46 AM
> To: Roopa Prabhu
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; sri@us.ibm.com; dragos.tatulea@gmail.com;
> arnd@arndb.de; kvm@vger.kernel.org; davem@davemloft.net;
> mchan@broadcom.com; dwang2@cisco.com; shemminger@vyatta.com;
> eric.dumazet@gmail.com; kaber@trash.net; benve@cisco.com; Rose, Gregory V
> Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address
> filtering support for passthru mode
>
> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:15:05AM -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> > >> ... And also I dont know of any hw
> > >> that provides an interface to set hw filters on a per queue basis.
> > >
> > > VMDq hardware would support this, no?
> > >
> > Am not really sure. This patch uses netdev to pass filters to hw. And I
> > don't see any netdev infrastructure that would support per queue
> filters.
>
> Sure. I was only saying that as far as I understand,
> VMDq hardware does support this functionality.
> Right, Greg?
In the case of Intel HW yes. I'll refrain from speaking for other HW vendors although I'm guessing it would be true in their cases also. YMMV, caveat emptor, etc. etc.
- Greg
>
> --
> MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-25 15:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-10-19 6:25 [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode Roopa Prabhu
2011-10-19 6:25 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/8 RFC v2] rtnetlink: Netlink interface for setting MAC and VLAN filters Roopa Prabhu
2011-10-19 6:26 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/8 RFC v2] rtnetlink: Add rtnl link operations for MAC address and VLAN filtering Roopa Prabhu
2011-10-19 6:26 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/8 RFC v2] rtnetlink: Add support to set MAC/VLAN filters Roopa Prabhu
2011-10-19 6:26 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 4/8 RFC v2] rtnetlink: Add support to get " Roopa Prabhu
2011-10-19 6:26 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 5/8 RFC v2] macvlan: Add support to set MAC/VLAN filter rtnl link operations Roopa Prabhu
2011-10-19 6:26 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 6/8 RFC v2] macvlan: Add support to get " Roopa Prabhu
2011-10-19 6:26 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 7/8 RFC v2] macvtap: Add support to set " Roopa Prabhu
2011-10-24 5:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-19 6:26 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 8/8 RFC v2] macvtap: Add support to get " Roopa Prabhu
2011-10-24 5:56 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-28 18:24 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-10-19 21:06 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode Rose, Gregory V
2011-10-19 22:30 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-10-20 20:43 ` Rose, Gregory V
2011-10-20 20:47 ` Rose, Gregory V
2011-10-20 21:06 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-11-17 23:37 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-10-24 5:47 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-24 18:15 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-10-24 21:51 ` Rose, Gregory V
2011-10-25 15:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-10-25 15:59 ` Rose, Gregory V [this message]
2011-11-17 23:43 ` Ben Hutchings
2011-11-08 18:31 ` Rose, Gregory V
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