From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Greear Subject: Re: [PATCH] macvlan: Deterministic ingress packet delivery Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2009 08:36:29 -0800 Message-ID: <49B2A28D.30502@candelatech.com> References: <49B12B20.7000602@trash.net> <49B13259.9040701@trash.net> <49B13C7D.10308@trash.net> <49B15865.10103@candelatech.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Patrick McHardy , David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: "Eric W. Biederman" Return-path: Received: from mail.candelatech.com ([208.74.158.172]:56971 "EHLO ns3.lanforge.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755167AbZCGQgf (ORCPT ); Sat, 7 Mar 2009 11:36:35 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >From 22d0a3e4ffa91f85c224d171ed7cc2d64a6dda00 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Eric Biederman > Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 09:16:30 -0800 > Subject: > > Changing the mac address when a macvlan device is up will leave the > device on the wrong hash chain making it impossible to receive > packets. > I see no problem with this, but Patrick knows the code better... Might be nice to use a bigger hash some day, but can deal with that separately. Ben -- Ben Greear Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com