ixgbe: rework ixgbe MTA handling to not drop packets

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This change modifies the ixgbe drivers so that it will not drop the
multicast filters while updating them.  Instead it uses an intermediate
table to store the filter and then writes that filter to the hardware.

Based on original patch from Dave Boutcher <daveboutcher@gmail.com>

Signed-off-by: Emil Tantilov <emil.s.tantilov@intel.com>
Reported-by: Dave Boutcher <daveboutcher@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Stephen Ko <stephen.s.ko@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>

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Emil Tantilov 2011-02-18 08:58:27 +00:00 • committed by Jeff Kirsher

parent b60c5dd31b

commit 80960ab040

2 changed files with 11 additions and 60 deletions

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drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_common.c

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drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_type.h

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