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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/3 RFC] macvlan: MAC Address filtering
 support for passthru mode
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 22:33:33 +0300
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On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 12:23:56PM -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> > 
> > I think the main usecase for passthru mode is to assign a SR-IOV VF to
> > a single guest.
> > 
> Yes and for the passthru usecase this patch should be enough to enable
> filtering in hw (eventually like I indicated before I need to fix vlan
> filtering too).

So with filtering in hw, and in sriov VF case, VFs
actually share a filtering table. How will that
be partitioned?

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MST