netdev - Re: [PATCH net 8/9] hv_netvsc: propagate rx filters to VF

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Message-ID: <20180301135657.5ab70082@cakuba.netronome.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Mar 2018 13:56:57 -0800
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>
To:     Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:     kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        devel@...uxdriverproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net 8/9] hv_netvsc: propagate rx filters to VF

On Thu,  1 Mar 2018 10:27:55 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> The netvsc device should propagate filters to the SR-IOV VF
> device (if present). The flags also need to be propagated to the
> VF device as well. This only really matters on local Hyper-V
> since Azure does not support multiple addresses.
> 
> The rx filter management in netvsc device does not need to be done
> in a work queue since it is called with RTNL held.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>

Do you also propagate them when VF gets unplugged and plugged back in?