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From: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] qemu: TAP filtering support
Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 20:19:01 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1234383541.14052.247.camel@blaa> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1234381866.7026.1524.camel@lappy>

On Wed, 2009-02-11 at 12:51 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> >   - What do we need rxfilter=on|off on the command line for?
> 
> Primarily because the current tun driver in Linux has a bug that it can
> drop unicast packets requested to be included in the filter if it
> overflows the exact match table.
> 
> http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg88451.html

Oh dear. Does this suggest we should make rxfilter=off the default?

Is there any way we can automatically detect we're running on a broken
kernel?

Thanks,
Mark.



  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-11 20:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-10 21:28 [PATCH 0/4] qemu: TAP filtering support Alex Williamson
2009-02-10 21:28 ` [PATCH 1/4] qemu:net: Add infrastructure for setting an RX filter through the vlan Alex Williamson
2009-02-10 21:28 ` [PATCH 2/4] qemu:net: Add TAP support for RX filtering on Linux Alex Williamson
2009-02-10 21:28 ` [PATCH 3/4] qemu:virtio-net: Add support for qemu_vlan_rxfilter Alex Williamson
2009-02-12 16:26   ` [Qemu-devel] " Paul Brook
2009-02-12 16:36     ` Alex Williamson
2009-02-12 17:05       ` Paul Brook
2009-02-12 18:21         ` Alex Williamson
2009-02-12 20:26           ` Jamie Lokier
2009-02-13 12:40           ` Paul Brook
2009-02-13 16:00             ` Jamie Lokier
2009-02-13 16:17               ` Paul Brook
2009-02-13 16:46                 ` Jamie Lokier
2009-02-13 17:04                   ` Paul Brook
2009-02-13 20:38                     ` Jamie Lokier
2009-02-15 16:25                       ` Paul Brook
2009-02-10 21:29 ` [PATCH 4/4] qemu:e1000: " Alex Williamson
2009-02-11 15:11   ` Alex Williamson
2009-02-11 17:11   ` Alex Williamson
2009-02-11 19:31 ` [PATCH 0/4] qemu: TAP filtering support Mark McLoughlin
2009-02-11 19:43   ` Anthony Liguori
2009-02-11 19:51   ` Alex Williamson
2009-02-11 20:19     ` Mark McLoughlin [this message]
2009-02-11 20:37       ` Alex Williamson
2009-02-12 19:57         ` [Qemu-devel] " Jamie Lokier

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