From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Williamson Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] virtio_net: Add support for VLAN filtering in the hypervisor Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:42:28 -0700 Message-ID: <1232991748.7026.87.camel@lappy> References: <1232357520.5627.15.camel@blaa> <20090120163636.10034.5080.stgit@debian.lart> <1232469840.5277.10.camel@blaa> <20090125.180812.31889647.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: markmc@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: David Miller Return-path: Received: from g4t0015.houston.hp.com ([15.201.24.18]:46319 "EHLO g4t0015.houston.hp.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752438AbZAZRl4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jan 2009 12:41:56 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20090125.180812.31889647.davem@davemloft.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 18:08 -0800, David Miller wrote: > From: Mark McLoughlin > Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:44:00 +0000 > > > 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 > > I'd like to make some forward progress on this patch set. > Either apply something, or defer to Rusty. > > If you think I should apply it to net-next-2.6, please just > resubmit the serious with accumulated ACK'd etc. > > Else I'll let these flow Rusty's way. I'd still like to see if Rusty has any comments now that he's hopefully catching up after LCA. I'll resend them in a couple days if not. Thanks, Alex -- Alex Williamson HP Open Source & Linux Org.