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| author | Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com> | 2019-07-31 09:34:46 +0800 |
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| committer | Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> | 2019-09-08 17:17:56 -0400 |
| commit | 6aecd69eb90bb1feb0c8badf6af7065e55b7a2e7 (patch) | |
| tree | acee890ac8c4b7ec95af997671becfe994f3c9ed | |
| parent | 7a25d74962d39ec3192a998bbefaf21bb46b642e (diff) | |
| download | virtio-spec-6aecd69eb90bb1feb0c8badf6af7065e55b7a2e7.tar.gz | |
content: explicitly document the VLAN filtering as best-effort
Similar to the MAC address based filtering, the VLAN filtering
is also best-effort in implementations, but it's not quite clear
in the spec. So document this behaviour explicitly to reflect
the way implementations behave.
Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <tiwei.bie@intel.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <cohuck@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Fixes: https://github.com/oasis-tcs/virtio-spec/issues/47
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1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex index 24a8927..37a2190 100644 --- a/content.tex +++ b/content.tex @@ -3609,6 +3609,11 @@ of \field{mac} in the config space. If the driver negotiates the VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN feature, it can control a VLAN filter table in the device. +\begin{note} +Similar to the MAC address based filtering, the VLAN filtering +is also best-effort: unwanted packets could still arrive. +\end{note} + \begin{lstlisting} #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN 2 #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN_ADD 0 |