> From: Brown, Aaron F
> Sent: Friday, April 13, 2018 7:20 PM
> To: 'Vinicius Costa Gomes' <[email protected]>; intel-wired-
> [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; Sanchez-Palencia, Jesus <jesus.sanchez-
> [email protected]>
> Subject: RE: [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue PATCH v7 06/10] igb: Allow filters
> to be added for the local MAC address
>
> > From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:[email protected]] On
> > Behalf Of Vinicius Costa Gomes
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2018 10:50 AM
> > To: [email protected]
> > Cc: [email protected]; Sanchez-Palencia, Jesus <jesus.sanchez-
> > [email protected]>
> > Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [next-queue PATCH v7 06/10] igb: Allow filters to
> > be added for the local MAC address
> >
> > Users expect that when adding a steering filter for the local MAC
> > address, that all the traffic directed to that address will go to some
> > queue.
> >
> > Currently, it's not possible to configure entries in the "in use"
> > state, which is the normal state of the local MAC address entry (it is
> > the default), this patch allows to override the steering configuration
> > of "in use" entries, if the filter to be added match the address and
> > address type (source or destination) of an existing entry.
> >
> > There is a bit of a special handling for entries referring to the
> > local MAC address, when they are removed, only the steering
> > configuration is reset.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Vinicius Costa Gomes <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 40 ++++++++++++++++++++-
> --
> > 1 file changed, 36 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> Tested by: Aaron Brown <[email protected]>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <[email protected]>
