netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/3 RFC] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

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Message-ID: <20110908193332.GA2476@redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:33:33 +0300
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@...co.com>
Cc:	Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	dragos.tatulea@...il.com, arnd@...db.de, dwang2@...co.com,
	benve@...co.com, kaber@...sh.net, davem@...emloft.net,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, mchan@...adcom.com, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/3 RFC] macvlan: MAC Address filtering
 support for passthru mode

On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 12:23:56PM -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> > 
> > I think the main usecase for passthru mode is to assign a SR-IOV VF to
> > a single guest.
> > 
> Yes and for the passthru usecase this patch should be enough to enable
> filtering in hw (eventually like I indicated before I need to fix vlan
> filtering too).

So with filtering in hw, and in sriov VF case, VFs
actually share a filtering table. How will that
be partitioned?

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MST
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