From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Roopa Prabhu Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/3 RFC] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 06:38:00 -0700 Message-ID: References: <20110911185238.GB4740@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: , , , , , , , , , , To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Return-path: Received: from mtv-iport-3.cisco.com ([173.36.130.14]:43300 "EHLO mtv-iport-3.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755885Ab1ILNiE (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Sep 2011 09:38:04 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20110911185238.GB4740@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 9/11/11 11:52 AM, "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 06:18:02AM -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote: >> >> >> >> On 9/11/11 2:38 AM, "Michael S. Tsirkin" wrote: >> >>> On Fri, Sep 09, 2011 at 09:33:33AM -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote: >>> >>> It's probably more interesting for a card without SRIOV support. >>> >> If its an SRIOV card I am assuming people likely using PASSTHRU mode. >> Non-SRIOV cards will use any of the non-PASSTHRU mode. >> >> >>>> we will have to add filter lookup in macvlan >>>> to filter pkts for each guest. >>> >>> Any chance to enable hardware filters for that? >>> >> NAFAIK. Am not sure how you would do it too. Its still a single device from >> where the host receives traffic from. >> >> Thanks, >> Roopa > > VMDQ cards might let you program mac addresses for individula rings. > I tried to lookup more information on this. I dint find any concrete information. I am not sure if individual rings show up as separate netdev. Any more info on how a VMDQ nic is used with macvlan ?. I came across this http://www.linux-kvm.org/wiki/images/6/6a/KvmForum2008$kdf2008_7.pdf Thanks, Roopa