On 3/1/2012 6:14 AM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 09:25:56AM -0800, John Fastabend wrote: >> Agreed. I think adding some ndo_ops for bridging offloads here would >> work. For example the DSA infrastructure and/or macvlan devices might >> need this. Along the lines of extending this RFC, >> >> [RFC] hardware bridging support for DSA switches >> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/16578/ >> >> >> .John > > One place where this might not work well would be > macvtap which is not a network device so it doesn't have > its own address, instead it inherits one from macvlan. >
But is macvtap really doing any forwarding or implementing any RX filters? Took a quick scan and it looks like the forwarding logic is all in the macvlan code paths. In this case I suspect if we enable macvlan then any device built on top of it would work. .John -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
