From: Roopa Prabhu <roprabhu@cisco.com>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, <dragos.tatulea@gmail.com>,
<arnd@arndb.de>, <dwang2@cisco.com>, <benve@cisco.com>,
<kaber@trash.net>, <sri@us.ibm.com>, <davem@davemloft.net>,
<eric.dumazet@gmail.com>, <mchan@broadcom.com>,
<kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/3 RFC] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:38:00 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA935948.33E98%roprabhu@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110911185238.GB4740@redhat.com>
On 9/11/11 11:52 AM, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 06:18:02AM -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> On 9/11/11 2:38 AM, "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 09:33:33AM -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
>>>
>>> It's probably more interesting for a card without SRIOV support.
>>>
>> If its an SRIOV card I am assuming people likely using PASSTHRU mode.
>> Non-SRIOV cards will use any of the non-PASSTHRU mode.
>>
>>
>>>> we will have to add filter lookup in macvlan
>>>> to filter pkts for each guest.
>>>
>>> Any chance to enable hardware filters for that?
>>>
>> NAFAIK. Am not sure how you would do it too. Its still a single device from
>> where the host receives traffic from.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Roopa
>
> VMDQ cards might let you program mac addresses for individula rings.
>
I tried to lookup more information on this. I dint find any concrete
information. I am not sure if individual rings show up as separate netdev.
Any more info on how a VMDQ nic is used with macvlan ?.
I came across this
http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/6/6a/KvmForum2008$kdf2008_7.pdf
Thanks,
Roopa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-09-12 13:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-09-06 22:35 [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/3 RFC] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-06 22:35 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 1/3 RFC] macvlan: Add support for unicast filtering in macvlan Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-06 22:35 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3 RFC] macvlan: Add function to set addr filters for device in passthru mode Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-06 22:35 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 3/3 RFC] macvtap: Add support for TUNSETTXFILTER Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-08 16:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-08 19:06 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-07 12:34 ` [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/3 RFC] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-08 5:20 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-08 11:08 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-08 16:19 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-08 17:42 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2011-09-08 19:23 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-08 19:33 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-09 3:00 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-09 4:25 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2011-09-09 16:21 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-11 9:44 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-11 13:18 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-11 19:03 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-12 17:02 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-15 13:46 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-26 23:06 ` Christian Benvenuti (benve)
2011-09-12 4:30 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2011-09-12 17:23 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-08 19:11 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-09 2:53 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-09 5:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-09 16:33 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-11 9:38 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-11 13:18 ` Roopa Prabhu
2011-09-11 18:52 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2011-09-12 13:38 ` Roopa Prabhu [this message]
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