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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:27:28 -0800
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
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Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH 0/3] macvlan: support for guest vm direct rx/tx
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To: Patrick Mullaney <pmullaney@novell.com>
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On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:55:06 -0500
Patrick Mullaney <pmullaney@novell.com> wrote:

> These patches allow other modules to override the receive
> path of a macvlan. This is being done to support guest
> VMs operating directly over a macvlan. Routines to allow
> creation and deletion of macvlans from in-kernel modules
> were also exposed/added.

Which guest VM, how will it use it? The kernel is not in the business
of providing infrastructure for out of tree patches.

Also, macvlan should really being calling netif_receive_skb()
not going through another queue/softirq cycle.