Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 06 Jan 2014 15:47:40 -0500 (EST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH net 1/2] macvlan: forbid L2 fowarding offload for macvtap | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com> Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2014 11:21:06 +0800
> L2 fowarding offload will bypass the rx handler of real device. This will make > the packet could not be forwarded to macvtap device. Another problem is the > dev_hard_start_xmit() called for macvtap does not have any synchronization. > > Fix this by forbidding L2 forwarding for macvtap. > > Cc: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@intel.com> > Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
I think I agree with Neil that the rx_handler change might be the best way to fix this. That change seems to have a lot of nice unintended side effects, no?
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