From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/3 RFC] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:33:33 +0300 Message-ID: <20110908193332.GA2476@redhat.com> References: <1315503765.11074.33.camel@w-sridhar.beaverton.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Sridhar Samudrala , netdev@vger.kernel.org, dragos.tatulea@gmail.com, arnd@arndb.de, dwang2@cisco.com, benve@cisco.com, kaber@trash.net, davem@davemloft.net, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, mchan@broadcom.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Roopa Prabhu Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:22677 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755164Ab1IHXbw (ORCPT ); Thu, 8 Sep 2011 19:31:52 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 12:23:56PM -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote: > > > > I think the main usecase for passthru mode is to assign a SR-IOV VF to > > a single guest. > > > Yes and for the passthru usecase this patch should be enough to enable > filtering in hw (eventually like I indicated before I need to fix vlan > filtering too). So with filtering in hw, and in sriov VF case, VFs actually share a filtering table. How will that be partitioned? -- MST