From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] virtio_net: Add support for VLAN filtering in the hypervisor Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 18:08:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20090125.180812.31889647.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1232357520.5627.15.camel@blaa> <20090120163636.10034.5080.stgit@debian.lart> <1232469840.5277.10.camel@blaa> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: alex.williamson@hp.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, rusty@rustcorp.com.au, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: markmc@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:42583 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753028AbZAZCIK (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:08:10 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1232469840.5277.10.camel@blaa> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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.