On Tue, 2011-10-25 at 08:59 -0700, Rose, Gregory V wrote: > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Michael S. Tsirkin [mailto:mst@xxxxxxxxxx] > > Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:46 AM > > To: Roopa Prabhu > > Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; sri@xxxxxxxxxx; dragos.tatulea@xxxxxxxxx; > > arnd@xxxxxxxx; kvm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; > > mchan@xxxxxxxxxxxx; dwang2@xxxxxxxxx; shemminger@xxxxxxxxxx; > > eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx; kaber@xxxxxxxxx; benve@xxxxxxxxx; 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 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 any netdev infrastructure that would support per queue > > filters. > > > > Sure. I was only saying that as far as I understand, > > VMDq hardware does support this functionality. > > Right, Greg? > > In the case of Intel HW yes. I'll refrain from speaking for other HW > vendors although I'm guessing it would be true in their cases also. > YMMV, caveat emptor, etc. etc. Current Solarflare hardware supports: - RX MAC address filters for queue selection (steering), which can be combined with RSS (flow hashing) - TX MAC address filters to prevent spoofing Multiple filters can be associated with a single queue. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings, Staff Engineer, Solarflare Not speaking for my employer; that's the marketing department's job. They asked us to note that Solarflare product names are trademarked. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
