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Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 10:57:03 +0200 (CEST) From: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <hawk@...u.dk> To: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>, gospo@...hat.com Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 06/13] igb: move all multicast addresses into multicast table array On Thu, 23 Jul 2009, Jeff Kirsher wrote: > From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com> > > This patch moves all of the multicast addresses out of the free Receive > address registers and instead programs them all into the multicast table > array. As a result the multicast filtering may not be as precise, but it > also greatly reduces the overhead for multicast addresses. What do you mean by "the multicast filtering may not be as precise" ? I'm planning to use these NICs for multicast traffic (both routing and monitoring). Is there any precausing I need to be aware of? Hilsen Jesper Brouer -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- MSc. Master of Computer Science Dept. of Computer Science, University of Copenhagen Author of http://www.adsl-optimizer.dk ------------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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