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

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Date:	Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:42:28 -0700
From:	Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@...com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	markmc@...hat.com, 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 Sun, 2009-01-25 at 18:08 -0800, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@...hat.com>
> Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:44:00 +0000
> 
> > 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>
> 
> I'd like to make some forward progress on this patch set.
> Either apply something, or defer to Rusty.
> 
> If you think I should apply it to net-next-2.6, please just
> resubmit the serious with accumulated ACK'd etc.
> 
> Else I'll let these flow Rusty's way.

I'd still like to see if Rusty has any comments now that he's hopefully
catching up after LCA.  I'll resend them in a couple days if not.
Thanks,

Alex

-- 
Alex Williamson                             HP Open Source & Linux Org.

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