Currently we always queue a multicast packet for further processing,
even if none of the macvlan devices are subscribed to the address.
This patch optimises this by adding a global multicast filter for
a macvlan_port.
Note that this patch doesn't handle the broadcast addresses of the
individual m
From: Herbert Xu
Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 16:28:28 +0800
> @@ -725,6 +730,8 @@ static void macvlan_set_mac_lists(struct net_device *dev)
> {
> struct macvlan_dev *vlan = netdev_priv(dev);
>
> + dev_uc_sync(vlan->lowerdev, dev);
> + dev_mc_sync(vlan->lowerdev, dev);
> if (dev-
Currently we always queue a multicast packet for further processing,
even if none of the macvlan devices are subscribed to the address.
This patch optimises this by adding a global multicast filter for
a macvlan_port.
Note that this patch doesn't handle the broadcast addresses of the
individual m
