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From: Michael S. Tsirkin [mailto:mst@redhat.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2011 8:46 AM
To: Roopa Prabhu
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; sri@us.ibm.com; dragos.tatulea@gmail.com;
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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:

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... 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.

- Greg

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