RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

2011-11-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Thu, 2011-10-20 at 13:43 -0700, Rose, Gregory V wrote: -Original Message- From: Roopa Prabhu [mailto:ropra...@cisco.com] [...] Moving the ops to netdev should be trivial. You probably want the ops to work on the VF via the PF, like the existing ndo_set_vf_mac etc. That is

RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

2011-11-17 Thread Ben Hutchings
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RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

2011-11-08 Thread Rose, Gregory V
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Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

2011-10-25 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:15:05AM -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote: ... And also I dont know of any hw that provides an interface to set hw filters on a per queue basis. VMDq hardware would support this, no? Am not really sure. This patch uses netdev to pass filters to hw. And I don't see

RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

2011-10-25 Thread Rose, Gregory V
...@cisco.com; shemmin...@vyatta.com; eric.duma...@gmail.com; ka...@trash.net; be...@cisco.com; Rose, Gregory V Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 11:15:05AM -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote: ... And also I dont

Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

2011-10-24 Thread Roopa Prabhu
On 10/23/11 10:47 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin m...@redhat.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:25:54PM -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote: v1 version of this RFC patch was posted at http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg174245.html Today macvtap used in virtualized environment does not have support to

RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

2011-10-24 Thread Rose, Gregory V
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Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

2011-10-23 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 11:25:54PM -0700, Roopa Prabhu wrote: v1 version of this RFC patch was posted at http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg174245.html Today macvtap used in virtualized environment does not have support to propagate MAC, VLAN and interface flags from guest to lowerdev.

RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

2011-10-20 Thread Rose, Gregory V
...@broadcom.com; dwa...@cisco.com; shemmin...@vyatta.com; eric.duma...@gmail.com; ka...@trash.net; be...@cisco.com Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode On 10/19/11 2:06 PM, Rose, Gregory V gregory.v.r...@intel.com wrote

RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

2011-10-20 Thread Rose, Gregory V
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Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

2011-10-20 Thread Roopa Prabhu
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[net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

2011-10-19 Thread Roopa Prabhu
v1 version of this RFC patch was posted at http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg174245.html Today macvtap used in virtualized environment does not have support to propagate MAC, VLAN and interface flags from guest to lowerdev. Which means to be able to register additional VLANs, unicast and

RE: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

2011-10-19 Thread Rose, Gregory V
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Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 0/8 RFC v2] macvlan: MAC Address filtering support for passthru mode

2011-10-19 Thread Roopa Prabhu
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