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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] allow netif frontend to indicate ethernet multic

To: Keir Fraser <Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] allow netif frontend to indicate ethernet multicast groups of interest
From: Kieran Mansley <kmansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2007 14:12:08 +0000
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On Thu, 2007-11-22 at 14:01 +0000, Keir Fraser wrote:
> How does a frontend detect whether these options are supported by the
> backend? What happens across save/restore? Would this be better implemented
> by a multicast list in xenstore?

A per-guest-vif list in xenstore would also have the advantage that it
would be easily accessible and usable by the network acceleration
modules, without having to republish the add/remove requests from
netback to any registered accelerators.

Kieran


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