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

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 21 Sep 2018 19:33:16 +0300
Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko at solarflare.com> wrote:

> 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?
> 

failsafe was built to be used with tap and mlx on Azure.
It could be used with virtio and other NIC on KVM, but this is mostly theoretical.