netdev - Re: [v2 PATCH 0/2] macvlan: Avoid unnecessary multicast cloning

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Date:	Wed, 01 Jun 2016 17:49:22 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	buytenh@...tstofly.org, kaber@...sh.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	jpirko@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [v2 PATCH 0/2] macvlan: Avoid unnecessary multicast cloning

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 11:42:18 +0800

> This patch tries to improve macvlan multicast performance by
> maintaining a filter hash at the macvlan_port level so that we
> can quickly determine whether a given packet is needed or not.
> 
> It is preceded by a patch that fixes a potential use-after-free
> bug that I discovered while looking over this.
> 
> v2 fixed a bug where promiscuous/allmulti settings weren't handled
> correctly.

Series applied to net-next, thanks Herbert.