From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
To: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com>
Cc: "Paul Congdon (UC Davis)" <ptcongdon@ucdavis.edu>,
arnd@arndb.de, anna.fischer@hp.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, davem@davemloft.net,
adobriyan@gmail.com, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
"evb@yahoogroups.com" <evb@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: Re: [evb] RE: [PATCH][RFC] net/bridge: add basic VEPA support
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 08:20:37 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090810082037.17b352c2@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4A7EB0AC.2030104@Voltaire.com>
On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 14:19:08 +0300
Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > I have a patch that forwards all multicast packets, and another that does proper forwarding. It should have worked that way in original macvlan, the current behavior is really a bug.
> >
> Looking in macvlan_set_multicast_list() it acts in a similar manner to
> macvlan_set_mac_address() in the sense that it calls dev_mc_sync(). I
> assume what's left is to add macvlan_hash_xxx multicast logic to
> map/unmap multicast groups to what macvlan devices want to receive them
> and this way the flooding can be removed, correct?
The device can just flood all multicast packets, since the filtering
is done on the receive path anyway.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-10 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-07 20:35 [evb] RE: [PATCH][RFC] net/bridge: add basic VEPA support Yaron Haviv
2009-08-07 21:00 ` Fischer, Anna
2009-08-08 9:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-07 21:06 ` Paul Congdon (UC Davis)
2009-08-07 21:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-09 11:19 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-08-10 15:20 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2009-08-10 15:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-10 16:32 ` Fischer, Anna
2009-08-10 16:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-10 19:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-27 12:35 ` Or Gerlitz
[not found] ` <0199E0D51A61344794750DC57738F58E6D6A6CD803__29862.6656564467$1249679159$gmane$org@GVW1118EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net>
2009-08-08 8:50 ` Benny Amorsen
2009-08-08 9:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-06-15 17:33 Fischer, Anna
2009-08-07 4:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-07 11:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-07 19:44 ` [evb] " Paul Congdon (UC Davis)
2009-08-10 15:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-10 15:59 ` Fischer, Anna
2009-08-10 16:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
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