[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index] Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] public/io/netif.h: change semantics of "request-multicast-control" flag
El 21/01/16 a les 16.29, Ian Campbell ha escrit: > On Wed, 2016-01-20 at 12:50 +0000, Paul Durrant wrote: >> My patch b2700877 "move and amend multicast control documentation" >> clarified use of the multicast control protocol between frontend and >> backend. However, it transpires that the restrictions that documentation >> placed on the "request-multicast-control" flag make it hard for a >> frontend to enable 'all multicast' promiscuous mode, in that to do so >> would require the frontend and backend to disconnect and re-connect. >> >> This patch adds a new "feature-dynamic-multicast-control" flag to allow >> a backend to advertise that it will watch "request-multicast-control" hence >> allowing it to be meaningfully modified by the frontend at any time rather >> than only when the frontend and backend are disconnected. >> >> Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@xxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Keir Fraser <keir@xxxxxxx> >> Cc: Tim Deegan <tim@xxxxxxx> > > > This looks good to me, but also adding Wei (Linux netback + BSD stuff) and > Roger (BSD stuff) for their perspective. > > I should probably have done that for the last set of netif.h changes too, > since apart from the nominal maintainers of xen/include/public/io/*.h it's > worth getting input from the maintainers of the consumers. Not sure we can > express that very well in MAINTAINERS :-(. I'm going to leave this one to Wei, he has more experience than me regarding FreeBSD netfront (and xen-net related topics). FWIW, a quick and dirty grep on FreeBSD netfront doesn't show any results for "request-multicast-control", so I guess it's not implemented. Roger. _______________________________________________ Xen-devel mailing list Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.xen.org/xen-devel
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