[Intel-wired-lan] [next PATCH S59 5/6] i40e: Allow untrusted VFs to have more filters

[Bowers, AndrewX]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces at lists.osuosl.org] On
> Behalf Of Bimmy Pujari
> Sent: Monday, January 30, 2017 12:30 PM
> To: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [next PATCH S59 5/6] i40e: Allow untrusted VFs to
> have more filters
> 
> From: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams at intel.com>
> 
> Our original filter limit of 8 was based on behavior that we saw from Linux
> VMs. Now we're running Other Operating Systems under KVM and we see
> that they commonly use more MAC filters. Since it seems weird to require
> people to enable trusted VFs just to boot their OS, bump the number of
> filters allowed by default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.williams at intel.com>
> Change-ID: I76b2dcb2ad6017e39231ad3096c3fb6f065eef5e
> ---
> Testing Hints : Boot Windows Server 2016 in a VM and make sure the host
> doesn't complain about untrusted VFs.
> 
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers at intel.com>