Re: [PATCH v2 1/3] ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox API to enable MC promiscuous mode

2015-02-19 Thread Jeff Kirsher
On Fri, 2015-02-20 at 00:59 +, Hiroshi Shimamoto wrote: > From: Hiroshi Shimamoto > > The limitation of the number of multicast address for VF is not enough > for the large scale server with SR-IOV feature. > IPv6 requires the multicast MAC address for each IP address to handle > the Neighbor

[PATCH v2 1/3] ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox API to enable MC promiscuous mode

2015-02-19 Thread Hiroshi Shimamoto
From: Hiroshi Shimamoto The limitation of the number of multicast address for VF is not enough for the large scale server with SR-IOV feature. IPv6 requires the multicast MAC address for each IP address to handle the Neighbor Solicitation message. We couldn't assign over 30 IPv6 addresses to a si