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Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2009 12:49:20 -0600
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 7/7] virtio-net: Increase filter and control
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From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
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To: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
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On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin<mst@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 02:47:23PM -0600, Alex Williamson wrote:
>> Increase the size of the perfect filter table and control queue depth.
>> This should give us more headroom in the MAC filter and is known to be
>> needed by at least one guest user.
>
> Just curious - which guest is that?

A proprietary OS called DMX.  They'd like to be able to support 40-ish
perfect filter entries via the MAC filter table, as well as push out
several control commands in a row.

Alex