From: Toshiaki Makita
Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2015 20:37:06 +0900
> When I was testing 802.1ad, I found several drivers don't take into
> account 802.1ad or multiple vlans when retrieving L3 (IP/IPv6) or
> L4 (TCP/UDP) protocol for checksum offload.
>
> It is mainly due to vlan_get_protocol(), which e
> -Original Message-
> From: Hiroshi Shimamoto [mailto:h-shimam...@ct.jp.nec.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2015 3:37 AM
> To: Alexander Duyck; Skidmore, Donald C; Bjørn Mork
> Cc: e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; net...@vger.kernel.org; Choi, Sy
> Jong; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; Da
On 1/30/15, 2:50 AM, "Dan Carpenter" wrote:
>On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:41:27AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> Static checkers complain that the shifts in "(vid << 4) >> 4" perfectly
>> cancel each other out and the code is a no-op. "vid" is a u16. The
>> comment says that the intention here is
From: Hiroshi Shimamoto
Add netlink directives and ndo entry to allow VF multicast promiscuous mode.
The administrator wants to allow dedicatedly multicast promiscuous per VF.
Signed-off-by: Hiroshi Shimamoto
Reviewed-by: Hayato Momma
CC: Choi, Sy Jong
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include/linux/if_link.h | 1
From: Hiroshi Shimamoto
Implements the new netdev op to allow VF multicast promiscuous mode.
The administrator can allow to VF multicast promiscuous mode for only
trusted VM. After allowing multicast promiscuous mode from the host,
we can use over 30 IPv6 addresses on VM.
# ./ip link set dev et
From: Hiroshi Shimamoto
The limitation of the number of multicast address for VF is not enough
for the large scale server with SR-IOV feature.
IPv6 requires the multicast MAC address for each IP address to handle
the Neighbor Solicitation message.
We couldn't assign over 30 IPv6 addresses to a si
On Fri, Jan 30, 2015 at 11:41:27AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Static checkers complain that the shifts in "(vid << 4) >> 4" perfectly
> cancel each other out and the code is a no-op. "vid" is a u16. The
> comment says that the intention here is to drop the upper bits so I have
> added a cast t
Static checkers complain that the shifts in "(vid << 4) >> 4" perfectly
cancel each other out and the code is a no-op. "vid" is a u16. The
comment says that the intention here is to drop the upper bits so I have
added a cast to "u16" to do that.
Fixes: 401b5383c6c9 ('fm10k: Add support for confi
