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

Andrew Rybchenko arybchenko at solarflare.com
Fri Sep 21 18:33:16 CEST 2018


On 9/21/18 7:21 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> 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.

Yes, I know that TAP does not support it. Is failsafe so tighly bound to 
TAP to block it?



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