On Mon, 2015-11-02 at 17:09 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote: > This patch series extends the abilities of the ixgbe driver so that > we can > now support VLAN trunking on top of the PF when SR-IOV is enabled. > By > doing this we are able to extend the existing capabilities that were > enabled with the "bridge fdb add" support that was added some time > ago. It > had enabled the ability to have PF and VF mixed on a flat network, > this > makes it so that it also works on a VLAN enabled network. > > The first few patches in this series are basically just cleanup. > They > either fix bugs found in the code, or address complexity that was > making it > hard to either read or sort out exactly how the code was supposed to > work. > > The second half of the patch set is where we start adding features. > Specifically with this patch set the VLAN behavior changes for the PF > in > two ways. First we do not need to use the VLVF if the VFs have not > already > set up a pool list. As such I added functionality so that we can > skip that > step when it is not needed. Then I added support for VLAN > promiscuous by > simply setting all of the bits in the VFTA and letting the packets > fall > through to the default pool. In addition when in promiscuous mode we > set > the pool bit for the PF in all of the VLVF entries. This way if > anyone > adds a new entry it will automatically have the PF enabled. > > The last few patches address some more issues I found during testing. > The > issues were primarily related to stale entries floating around in > either > the RAR or VLVFB registers which were pointing to pools which were > not > valid for the given L2 address.
I have added these patches to my queue, Dave.
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