From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode Date: Tue, 25 Oct 2011 17:46:18 +0200 Message-ID: <20111025154617.GB22553@redhat.com> References: <20111024054710.GB24528@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, sri@us.ibm.com, dragos.tatulea@gmail.com, arnd@arndb.de, kvm@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net, mchan@broadcom.com, dwang2@cisco.com, shemminger@vyatta.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, kaber@trash.net, benve@cisco.com, "Rose, Gregory V" To: Roopa Prabhu Return-path: Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:55596 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756680Ab1JYPqX (ORCPT ); Tue, 25 Oct 2011 11:46:23 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:15:05AM -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote: > >> ... And also I dont know of any hw > >> that provides an interface to set hw filters on a per queue basis. > > > > VMDq hardware would support this, no? > > > Am not really sure. This patch uses netdev to pass filters to hw. And I > don't see any netdev infrastructure that would support per queue filters. Sure. I was only saying that as far as I understand, VMDq hardware does support this functionality. Right, Greg? -- MST