netdev - Re: [PATCH V1 net-next 0/4] Add destination MAC address to ethtool flow steering

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Date:	Wed, 12 Dec 2012 13:03:08 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	amirv@...lanox.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ogerlitz@...lanox.com, hadarh@...lanox.com,
	yanb@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V1 net-next 0/4] Add destination MAC address to ethtool
 flow steering

From: Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:13:16 +0200

> From: Yan Burman <yanb@...lanox.com>
> 
> In vSwitch configuration it is often beneficial to create flow steering
> rules for L3/L4 traffic based on VM port. This requires destination MAC
> address of that port to be present. Note that today the mlx4_en driver 
> adds the mac address of itself to the flow spec, where under the new
> ethtool flag suggested here it doesn't.
> 
> It may also be useful in macvlan devices.
> 
> These patches add kernel support for the new field (does not break old
> userspace compatibility, so new ethtool will work on old kernels and
> old ethtool will work with new kernels).
> 
> Also present here is the ethtool userspace patch.
> 
> See more details here http ://marc.info/?t=134977576500003

Kernel side applied to net-next, thanks.
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