netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] be2net: Learn and program mac to avoid packet replication in nPAR mode.

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Date:	Fri, 05 Sep 2014 17:34:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	VenkatKumar.Duvvuru@...lex.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] be2net: Learn and program mac to avoid packet
 replication in nPAR mode.

From: Venkat Duvvuru <VenkatKumar.Duvvuru@...lex.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 20:00:59 +0530

> In a multi-channel setup, when an interface (channel/partition) is used
> by a bridge or ovs, it is placed in promiscuous mode and the MAC addresses
> of the VMs attached to the bridge are not configured on the base interface.
> As a result of that, when a packet arrives to the port with
> virtual machine's mac address, the card cannot determine which ring to
> send the packet to, so replicates the packet on all the PFs of that port,
> hence resulting in wastage of PCI bandwidth and CPU cycles. Packet replication
> is also considered security risk as it can cause packets to reach an undesired VM.
> 
> This patch will help solve the problem by learning the mac address and
> programming it in the adapter. This patch also unlearns the MAC, if the MAC is
> moved out of the machine or if the MAC is inactive for more than 5 minutes.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Venkat Duvvuru <VenkatKumar.Duvvuru@...lex.com>

This is non-trivial overhead to add to the fast paths of your primary
packet input and output paths.

I think you need to find a different solution to this problem.
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