[virtio-dev] Re: [RFC] content: explicitly document the VLAN filtering as best-effort

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 03:00:47PM +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> Similar to the MAC address based filtering, the VLAN filtering
> is also best-effort in implementations, but it's not quite clear
> in the spec. So document this behaviour explicitly to reflect
> the way implementations behave.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>

fine by me.
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

> ---
> This is a RFC for now (Comments would be appreciated!).
> More details can be found here:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1113538/
> 
>  content.tex | 5 +++++
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex
> index 8f0498e..783322b 100644
> --- a/content.tex
> +++ b/content.tex
> @@ -3530,6 +3530,11 @@ \subsubsection{Control Virtqueue}\label{sec:Device Types / Network Device / Devi
>  If the driver negotiates the VIRTION_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN feature, it
>  can control a VLAN filter table in the device.
>  
> +\begin{note}
> +Similar to the MAC address based filtering, the VLAN filtering
> +is also best-effort: unwanted packets could still arrive.
> +\end{note}
> +
>  \begin{lstlisting}
>  #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN       2
>   #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN_ADD             0
> -- 
> 2.17.1

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