netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

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Message-ID: <20111025154617.GB22553@redhat.com>
Date:	Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:46:18 +0200
From:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
To:	Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@...co.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, sri@...ibm.com, dragos.tatulea@...il.com,
	arnd@...db.de, kvm@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	mchan@...adcom.com, dwang2@...co.com, shemminger@...tta.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, kaber@...sh.net, benve@...co.com,
	"Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering
 support for passthru mode

On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:15:05AM -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> >> ... And also I dont know of any hw
> >> that provides an interface to set hw filters on a per queue basis.
> > 
> > VMDq hardware would support this, no?
> > 
> Am not really sure. This patch uses netdev to pass filters to hw. And I
> don't see any netdev infrastructure that would support per queue filters.

Sure. I was only saying that as far as I understand,
VMDq hardware does support this functionality.
Right, Greg?

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