Re: [PATCH 4/5] virtio_net: Add a MAC filter table

Mark McLoughlin
2009-01-19T09:33:11Z

On Fri, 2009-01-16 at 14:13 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> Make use of the MAC_TABLE control virtqueue class to support a
> MAC filter table. The size of the filter table defaults to 16
> entries and can be adjusted via the mac_entries module parameter.
> Note, the original hardware address does not count towards this.
>
> As with most real hardware, unicast addresses have priority in
> the filter table so we can avoid enabling full promiscuous
> until both unicast and multicast address overflow.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com

Acked-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>

Cheers,
Mark.