netdev - Re: [PATCH 5/5] virtio_net: Add support for VLAN filtering in the hypervisor

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Date:	Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:44:00 +0000
From:	Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
To:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, rusty@...tcorp.com.au, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] virtio_net: Add support for VLAN filtering in the
 hypervisor

On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 09:36 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> VLAN filtering allows the hypervisor to drop packets from VLANs
> that we're not a part of, further reducing the number of extraneous
> packets recieved.  This makes use of the VLAN virtqueue command class.
> The ENABLE command is used both to activate the filter and verify the
> existence of the functionality on the backend.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>

Cool, looks good.

Acked-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>

Cheers,
Mark.

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