From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>, akong@redhat.com
Cc: kvm@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] make mac programming for virtio net more robust
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 12:53:07 +1030 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fw281mr8.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130110152829.GG30731@redhat.com>
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com> writes:
> On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 10:45:39PM +0800, akong@redhat.com wrote:
>> From: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
>>
>> Currenly mac is programmed byte by byte. This means that we
>> have an intermediate step where mac is wrong.
>>
>> Second patch introduced a new vq control command to set mac
>> address in one time.
>
> As you mention we could alternatively do it without
> new commands, simply add a feature bit that says that MACs are
> in the mac table.
> This would be a much bigger patch, and I'm fine with either way.
> Rusty what do you think?
Hmm, mac filtering and "my mac address" are not quite the same thing. I
don't know if it matters for anyone: does it? The mac address is abused
for things like identifying machines, etc.
If we keep it as a separate concept, Amos' patch seems to make sense.
Cheers,
Rusty.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-11 3:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-10 14:45 [RFC PATCH 0/2] make mac programming for virtio net more robust akong
2013-01-10 14:45 ` [RFC PATCH 1/2] move virtnet_send_command() above virtnet_set_mac_address() akong
2013-01-10 14:51 ` Jason Wang
2013-01-10 15:02 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-10 14:45 ` [RFC PATCH 2/2] virtio-net: introduce a new control to set macaddr akong
2013-01-10 14:57 ` [Qemu-devel] " Jason Wang
2013-01-16 5:23 ` Amos Kong
2013-01-16 9:17 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-10 15:26 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-11 0:43 ` Rusty Russell
2013-01-10 14:51 ` [RFC PATCH] virtio-net: introduce a new macaddr control akong
2013-01-11 9:50 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2013-01-10 15:08 ` [RFC PATCH 0/2] make mac programming for virtio net more robust Amos Kong
2013-01-10 15:28 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-11 2:23 ` Rusty Russell [this message]
2013-01-11 7:46 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2013-01-11 14:52 ` John Fastabend
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