On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 04:06:24AM -0800, David Miller wrote:
>
> > In other words we can make it so that nobody is in promiscuous
> > mode and therefore have to disable VLAN acceleration *unless*
> > they really want to be in that state. In which case it would
> > imply that they wish to see everything and therefore we should
> > disable VLAN acceleration.
>
> This is too complicated, we have multiple unicast MAC support
> in the driver API already, let's simply use it.
Yes I agree. People not using Patrick's new API deserves to
get poor performance so they can switch over sooner :)
What I was trying to say above is that e1000 currently uses
the old set_multicast_list interface (rather than dev_set_rx_mode)
so it's not immediately obvious why we're in promiscuous mode.
We could look at dev->promiscuity - !!uc_count but that feels a
bit fragile.
Perhaps those who want to push this patch should be encouraged
to convert e1000 to the new interface :)
Cheers,
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