> -----Original Message----- > From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-boun...@lists.osuosl.org] On > Behalf Of Alexander Duyck > Sent: Monday, November 02, 2015 5:10 PM > To: netdev@vger.kernel.org; intel-wired-...@lists.osuosl.org > Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [next PATCH 08/11] ixgbe: Add support for VLAN > promiscuous with SR-IOV > > This patch adds support for VLAN promiscuous with SR-IOV enabled. > > The code prior to this patch was only adding the PF to VLANs that the VF had > added. As such enabling promiscuous mode would actually not add any > additional VLAN filters so visibility was limited. This lead to a number of > issues > as the bridge and OVS would expect us to accept all VLAN tagged packets when > promiscuous mode was enabled, and instead we would filter out most if not all > depending on the configuration of the PF. > > With this patch what we do is set all the bits in the VFTA and all of the > VLVF bits > associated with the pool belonging to the PF. By doing this the PF is > guaranteed > to receive all VLAN tagged traffic associated with the RAR filters assigned > to the > PF. In addition we will clean up those same bits in the event of promiscuous > mode being disabled. > > Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <adu...@mirantis.com>
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