Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] virtio-net: Remove RX_EXTRA feature

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>]

On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 12:49 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Jun 2009 12:15:44 am Alex Williamson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-06-15 at 14:48 +0930, Rusty Russell wrote:
> > >  It's hard to see
> > > the use case where this feature offers significant advantages over
> > > promisc.  Without that, I'd wait until someone reports a need.
> >
> > Thanks for clarifying, a need has been reported.  DMX is a proprietary
> > OS that intends to run on KVM and make use of virtio-net.  They would
> > like to be able to toggle unicast and multicast independently as well as
> > mask broadcast traffic.  The original series re-arranged some of the
> > filter code in the virtio-net backend that allows these filter options
> > to drop out nicely.
> 
> That's sufficient for me.

Great, this feature bit removal patch is official dead then.

> Could you re-send feature-based patches if you're happy?

The feature based version already went into the tree via Mark's patch
queue, but I'll bounce you copies in case you have any comments that we
can fixup in tree before we sync the Linux virtio-net header.  Thanks,

Alex