Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next] xen-netback: add support for multicast control

2015-09-03 Thread Paul Durrant
> -Original Message- > From: Jan Beulich [mailto:jbeul...@suse.com] > Sent: 03 September 2015 09:57 > To: Paul Durrant > Cc: Ian Campbell; Wei Liu; xen-de...@lists.xenproject.org; > net...@vger.kernel.org > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next] xen

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next] xen-netback: add support for multicast control

2015-09-03 Thread Jan Beulich
>>> On 02.09.15 at 18:58, wrote: > @@ -1215,6 +1289,31 @@ static void xenvif_tx_build_gops(struct xenvif_queue > *queue, > break; > } > > + if (extras[XEN_NETIF_EXTRA_TYPE_MCAST_ADD - 1].type) { > +

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next] xen-netback: add support for multicast control

2015-09-03 Thread Ian Campbell
t; > net...@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next] xen-netback: add support > > for > > multicast control > > > > > > > On 02.09.15 at 18:58, <paul.durr...@citrix.com> wrote: > > > @@ -1215,6 +1289,31 @@ static

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next] xen-netback: add support for multicast control

2015-09-03 Thread Paul Durrant
t; > > Cc: Ian Campbell; Wei Liu; xen-de...@lists.xenproject.org; > > > net...@vger.kernel.org > > > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next] xen-netback: add support > > > for > > > multicast control > > > > > > > > > On 02.0

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next] xen-netback: add support for multicast control

2015-09-03 Thread Ian Campbell
; net...@vger.kernel.org > > Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next] xen-netback: add support > > for > > multicast control > > > > On Thu, 2015-09-03 at 10:00 +0100, Paul Durrant wrote: > > > > > > > > -Original Message-

[Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next] xen-netback: add support for multicast control

2015-09-02 Thread Paul Durrant
Xen's PV network protocol includes messages to add/remove ethernet multicast addresses to/from a filter list in the backend. This allows the frontend to request the backend only forward multicast packets which are of interest thus preventing unnecessary noise on the shared ring. The canonical

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next] xen-netback: add support for multicast control

2015-09-02 Thread Wei Liu
On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 05:58:36PM +0100, Paul Durrant wrote: > Xen's PV network protocol includes messages to add/remove ethernet > multicast addresses to/from a filter list in the backend. This allows > the frontend to request the backend only forward multicast packets > which are of interest

Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2 net-next] xen-netback: add support for multicast control

2015-09-02 Thread David Miller
From: Paul Durrant Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2015 17:58:36 +0100 > Xen's PV network protocol includes messages to add/remove ethernet > multicast addresses to/from a filter list in the backend. This allows > the frontend to request the backend only forward multicast packets >