On Thu, Jul 18, 2019 at 03:00:47PM +0800, Tiwei Bie wrote:
> Similar to the MAC address based filtering, the VLAN filtering
> is also best-effort in implementations, but it's not quite clear
> in the spec. So document this behaviour explicitly to reflect
> the way implementations behave.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tiwei Bie <>
fine by me.
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <>
> ---
> This is a RFC for now (Comments would be appreciated!).
> More details can be found here:
> https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1113538/
>
> content.tex | 5 +++++
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex
> index 8f0498e..783322b 100644
> --- a/content.tex
> +++ b/content.tex
> @@ -3530,6 +3530,11 @@ \subsubsection{Control Virtqueue}\label{sec:Device Types / Network Device / Devi
> If the driver negotiates the VIRTION_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN feature, it
> can control a VLAN filter table in the device.
>
> +\begin{note}
> +Similar to the MAC address based filtering, the VLAN filtering
> +is also best-effort: unwanted packets could still arrive.
> +\end{note}
> +
> \begin{lstlisting}
> #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN 2
> #define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN_ADD 0
> --
> 2.17.1
