From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mark McLoughlin Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] virtio_net: Add support for VLAN filtering in the hypervisor Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:44:00 +0000 Message-ID: <1232469840.5277.10.camel@blaa> References: <1232357520.5627.15.camel@blaa> <20090120163636.10034.5080.stgit@debian.lart> Reply-To: Mark McLoughlin Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Alex Williamson Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:47313 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756769AbZATQoQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Jan 2009 11:44:16 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090120163636.10034.5080.stgit@debian.lart> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 09:36 -0700, Alex Williamson wrote: > VLAN filtering allows the hypervisor to drop packets from VLANs > that we're not a part of, further reducing the number of extraneous > packets recieved. This makes use of the VLAN virtqueue command class. > The ENABLE command is used both to activate the filter and verify the > existence of the functionality on the backend. > > Signed-off-by: Alex Williamson Cool, looks good. Acked-by: Mark McLoughlin Cheers, Mark.