netdev - RE: [RFC PATCH 1/4] net: Add support to netdev ops for changing hardware queue MAC and VLAN filters

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Date:	Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:14:25 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	"Williams, Mitch A" <mitch.a.williams@...el.com>
Cc:	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>,
	"davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"shemminger@...tta.com" <shemminger@...tta.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"gospo@...hat.com" <gospo@...hat.com>
Subject: RE: [RFC PATCH 1/4] net: Add support to netdev ops for changing
	hardware queue MAC and VLAN filters

On Wed, 2009-11-18 at 14:37 -0700, Williams, Mitch A wrote:
> 
> >From: Ben Hutchings [mailto:bhutchings@...arflare.com]
> >Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 2009 11:53 AM
> 
> >How do you remove a filter?
> >
> 
> You remove a filter by setting it to 0 on that queue. Works for either MAC or VLAN.
> 
> >What about filtering on both MAC address and VLAN (our new controller
> >supports that)?
> 
> Setting a MAC filter doesn't blow away the VLAN filter, or vice-versa. So just run 'ip' twice to set the filters. Our hardware does it too, and it works fine for me:
> 
> $ ip link set eth1 queue 1 mac 00:11:22:33:44:55
> $ ip link set eth1 queue 1 vlan 10

Hmm, this is not what I would expect.  I'm used to filters being defined
independently of queues in a hash table or CAM.  In that case, setting
multiple filters pointing to one queue will result in the logical
disjunction of the filters.  Do I understand correctly that you have
exactly one of each type of filter per queue, with multiple filters
interpreted as a logical conjunction?

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings, Senior Software Engineer, Solarflare Communications
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