RE: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v6 3/3] ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox API to enable MC promiscuous mode

2015-06-23 Thread Hiroshi Shimamoto
> Subject: Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v6 3/3] ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox > API to enable MC promiscuous mode > > On 06/17/2015 04:45 AM, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote: > > From: Hiroshi Shimamoto > > > > The limitation of the number of multicast address for VF i

Re: [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH v6 3/3] ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox API to enable MC promiscuous mode

2015-06-17 Thread Alexander Duyck
On 06/17/2015 04:45 AM, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote: 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