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

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Date:	Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:08:12 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	markmc@...hat.com
Cc:	alex.williamson@...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

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.
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