[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/2] net/failsafe: support multicast MAC address set

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 16:36:19 +0100
Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com> wrote:

> v3:
>     - move apply on sync to fs_eth_dev_conf_apply() to apply to
>       a new subdevice only
>     - use ethdev API to apply to sub-device on sync
>     - remove unnecessary check the same pointer from the method
>       implementation in failsafe
> 
> v2:
>     - fix setting of zero addresses since rte_realloc() returns NULL
> 
> Evgeny Im (2):
>   net/failsafe: remove not supported multicast MAC filter
>   net/failsafe: support multicast address list set
> 
>  doc/guides/rel_notes/release_18_11.rst  |  1 +
>  drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe.c         |  1 +
>  drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_ether.c   | 17 +++++++++
>  drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_ops.c     | 50 +++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  drivers/net/failsafe/failsafe_private.h |  2 +
>  5 files changed, 71 insertions(+)
> 

Since TAP has no filtering this doesn't really do much for the slowpath.