From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
Cc: markmc@redhat.com, qemu-devel@nongnu.org,
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-net: Remove RX_EXTRA feature
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:49:24 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200906161249.25971.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1245077144.4851.25.camel@lappy>
On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:15:44 am Alex Williamson wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 14:48 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > It's hard to see
> > the use case where this feature offers significant advantages over
> > promisc. Without that, I'd wait until someone reports a need.
>
> Thanks for clarifying, a need has been reported. DMX is a proprietary
> OS that intends to run on KVM and make use of virtio-net. They would
> like to be able to toggle unicast and multicast independently as well as
> mask broadcast traffic. The original series re-arranged some of the
> filter code in the virtio-net backend that allows these filter options
> to drop out nicely.
That's sufficient for me.
Could you re-send feature-based patches if you're happy?
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-16 3:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-12 19:17 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-net: Remove RX_EXTRA feature Alex Williamson
2009-06-14 9:39 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2009-06-14 13:31 ` Alex Williamson
2009-06-15 5:18 ` Rusty Russell
2009-06-15 14:45 ` Alex Williamson
2009-06-16 3:19 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2009-06-16 14:29 ` Alex Williamson
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