netdev - [PATCH v4 0/4] virtio_net: Add MAC and VLAN filtering

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Date:	Tue, 03 Feb 2009 12:25:50 -0700
From:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>
To:	rusty@...tcorp.com.au
Cc:	markmc@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/4] virtio_net: Add MAC and VLAN filtering

This series adds infrastructure for a new control virtqueue and
makes use of it to support set_rx_mode, unicast and multicast address
lists, and supporting a hypervisor based VLAN filter.  The goal is to
make the virtio-net device support more of the features of a physical
NIC and allow the hypervisor to discard packets we don't want.  These
patches are intended for 2.6.30.

This is the 4th and hopefully final revision, incorporating a few
more tweaks from Rusty.  I've renamed VIRTIO_NET_MAX_CTRL_ARGS to
VIRTNET_SEND_COMMAND_SG_MAX and moved it into the c file.  I've
added the flexible 2-dimensional array to virtio_net_ctrl_mac and
cleaned up the code to use it.  I've retained the single scatterlist
parameter and out/in counts for virtnet_send_command() since the
current sg interface doesn't faciliate merging terminated sg[]s
together.  However, this is an internal virtio_net API and can
easily be refined over time, the key is the separate sg entries
for unicast/multicast MACs for the hypervisor ABI.  Thanks,

Alex

---

Alex Williamson (4):
      virtio_net: Add support for VLAN filtering in the hypervisor
      virtio_net: Add a MAC filter table
      virtio_net: Add a set_rx_mode interface
      virtio_net: Add a virtqueue for outbound control commands

 drivers/net/virtio_net.c   |  168 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
 include/linux/virtio_net.h |   66 +++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 231 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

-- 
Alex Williamson
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