From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 06/15] igb: make use of the uta to allow for promiscous mode filter Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:21:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20091006.152109.161018474.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20091005163058.32487.10125.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20091005163307.32487.75656.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:47908 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933763AbZJFWVO (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Oct 2009 18:21:14 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20091005163307.32487.75656.stgit@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 09:33:08 -0700 > From: Alexander Duyck > > In order to support functions such as vlan tag stripping when SR-IOV is > enabled any given packet must match at least one filter. However in the > case of promiscous mode being enabled on the PF the traffic routed to it > may not match any filters and is just sent to the PF by default. In order > to make certain that this traffic is processed we can set all bits in the > UTA registers to create a pseudo promiscous mode filter that accepts all > packets. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied.