Re: [PATCH 0/5] multicast address filtering

[Ivan Boule <ivan.boule@6wind.com>]

On 05/28/2015 06:21 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Thu, 28 May 2015 17:05:18 +0200
> Ivan Boule <ivan.boule@6wind.com> wrote:
>
>> Introduce PMD API to set the list of multicast MAC addresses filtered
>> by a port.
>> Implemented in the following PMDs: igb, igbvf, em, ixgbe, and ixgbevf.
>> Implementation for physical PMDs i40e, i40evf, enic, and fm10k left
>> to their respective maintainers.
>>
>> Ivan Boule (5):
>>    ethdev: add multicast address filtering
>>    app/testpmd: new command to add/remove multicast MAC addresses
>>    e1000: add multicast MAC address filtering
>>    ixgbe: add multicast MAC address filtering
>>    app/testpmd: fix reply to a multicast ICMP request
>>
>>   app/test-pmd/cmdline.c           |   52 ++++++++++++++
>>   app/test-pmd/config.c            |  142 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>>   app/test-pmd/icmpecho.c          |   65 +++++++++++++++--
>>   app/test-pmd/testpmd.h           |    6 ++
>>   drivers/net/e1000/em_ethdev.c    |   17 +++++
>>   drivers/net/e1000/igb_ethdev.c   |   18 +++++
>>   drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c |   32 +++++++++
>>   lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.c    |   17 +++++
>>   lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h    |   26 +++++++
>>   9 files changed, 369 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>>
>
> Looks good, could you also add support for virtio and vmxnet3?
>
As for physical NICs (i40e, etc.) listed above, I let the maintainers of 
the remaining NICs where this function is relevant to implement and to 
test it.
By the way, I supposed that Guest front-end vNICs were always in 
promiscuous mode by construction.
Said differently: that all packets supplied "from the outside" to the 
Host vNIC back-end driver were systematically delivered to the Guest 
vNIC front-end, whatever their destination MAC address, VLAN id., etc.
Did I missed something ?