[PATCH net V3 1/2] macvlan: forbid L2 fowarding offload for macvtap · Jason Wang <hidden> · 2014-01-10
[PATCH net V3 2/2] net: core: explicitly select a txq before doing l2 forwarding · Jason Wang <hidden> · 2014-01-10
Re: [PATCH net V3 2/2] net: core: explicitly select a txq before doing l2 forwarding · Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> · 2014-01-10
Re: [PATCH net V3 2/2] net: core: explicitly select a txq before doing l2 forwarding · John Fastabend <hidden> · 2014-01-10
Re: [PATCH net V3 2/2] net: core: explicitly select a txq before doing l2 forwarding · David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> · 2014-01-10
Re: [PATCH net V3 1/2] macvlan: forbid L2 fowarding offload for macvtap · John Fastabend <hidden> · 2014-01-10
Re: [PATCH net V3 1/2] macvlan: forbid L2 fowarding offload for macvtap · David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> · 2014-01-10

Re: [PATCH net V3 1/2] macvlan: forbid L2 fowarding offload for macvtap

From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: 2014-01-10 18:24:30
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From: Jason Wang <redacted>
Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 16:18:25 +0800

L2 fowarding offload will bypass the rx handler of real device. This will make
the packet could not be forwarded to macvtap device. Another problem is the
dev_hard_start_xmit() called for macvtap does not have any synchronization.

Fix this by forbidding L2 forwarding for macvtap.

Cc: John Fastabend <redacted>
Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <redacted>

Applied.

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