On 9/21/18 7:21 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 16:36:19 +0100 Andrew Rybchenko <[email protected]> wrote:v3: - move apply on sync to fs_eth_dev_conf_apply() to apply to a new subdevice only - use ethdev API to apply to sub-device on sync - remove unnecessary check the same pointer from the method implementation in failsafe v2: - fix setting of zero addresses since rte_realloc() returns NULL Evgeny Im (2): net/failsafe: remove not supported multicast MAC filter net/failsafe: support multicast address list set doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst | 1 + drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c | 1 + drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_ether.c | 17 +++++++++ drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_ops.c | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_private.h | 2 + 5 files changed, 71 insertions(+)Since TAP has no filtering this doesn't really do much for the slowpath.
Yes, I know that TAP does not support it. Is failsafe so tighly bound to TAP to block it?

