From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wei Liu Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] xen-netback: add support for multicast control Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 15:00:49 +0100 Message-ID: <20150902140049.GI18474@zion.uk.xensource.com> References: <1441196393-26564-1-git-send-email-paul.durrant@citrix.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Cc: , , Ian Campbell , Wei Liu To: Paul Durrant Return-path: Received: from smtp.citrix.com ([66.165.176.89]:60614 "EHLO SMTP.CITRIX.COM" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753562AbbIBOBH (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Sep 2015 10:01:07 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1441196393-26564-1-git-send-email-paul.durrant@citrix.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 01:19:53PM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote: > Xen's PV network protocol includes messages to add/remove ethernet > multicast addresses to/from a filter list in the backend. This allows > the frontend to request the backend only forward multicast packets > which are off interest thus preventing unnecessary noise on the shared "of interest" > ring. > [...] > + > +void xenvif_mcast_flush(struct xenvif *vif) Only one cosmetic comment. My first impression of this function by looking at the name is that it flushes queued multicast packets. Maybe we can rename it to xenvif_mcast_addr_list_free ? Wei.