RE: [PATCH v7 3/3] ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox API xcast mode

2015-07-17 Thread Skidmore, Donald C
ogre...@redhat.com; Linux Netdev List; Choi, > Sy Jong; Rony Efraim; Or Gerlitz; Edward Cree; David Miller; > sassm...@redhat.com > Subject: [PATCH v7 3/3] ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox API xcast mode > > From: Hiroshi Shimamoto > > The limitation of the number of multicast addre

[PATCH v7 3/3] ixgbe, ixgbevf: Add new mbox API xcast mode

2015-07-16 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