Re: [RFC PATCH 0/2] make mac programming for virtio net more robust

Amos Kong
2013-01-10T15:08:09Z

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.

I just posted RFC patches (kernel & qemu) out,
specifiction update will be sent when the solution
is accepted.

MST has another solution:
1. add a feature to disable mac address in pci space
2. introduce a new vq control cmd to add new mac address
to mac filter table. (no long check n->mac in receiver_filter())

Welcome to give comments, thanks!
Amos