RE: [PATCH net-next] xen-netback: add support for multicast control

2015-09-02 Thread Paul Durrant
> -Original Message- > From: Wei Liu [mailto:wei.l...@citrix.com] > Sent: 02 September 2015 15:01 > To: Paul Durrant > Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; xen-de...@lists.xenproject.org; Ian Campbell; > Wei Liu > Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] xen-netback: add support for mult

Re: [PATCH net-next] xen-netback: add support for multicast control

2015-09-02 Thread Wei Liu
On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 01:19:53PM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote: > Xen's PV network protocol includes messages to add/remove ethernet > multicast addresses to/from a filter list in the backend. This allows > the frontend to request the backend only forward multicast packets > which are off interest th

[PATCH net-next] xen-netback: add support for multicast control

2015-09-02 Thread Paul Durrant
Xen's PV network protocol includes messages to add/remove ethernet multicast addresses to/from a filter list in the backend. This allows the frontend to request the backend only forward multicast packets which are off interest thus preventing unnecessary noise on the shared ring. The canonical net