Re: [PATCH net V3 1/2] macvlan: forbid L2 fowarding offload for macvtap

[John Fastabend]

On 1/10/2014 12:18 AM, Jason Wang wrote:
> 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Same thing here tested my l2 forwarding offload use cases
and they still work. Thanks! For net-next we can look at
getting macvtap to work correctly.

Acked-by: John Fastabend <john.r.fastabend@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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