[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCH RFC] net: add a flag to disable mac/vlan filtering

[Alex Williamson]

On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 18:18 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 09:11:33AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:30 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 08:19:12AM -0700, Alex Williamson wrote:
> > > > A filtering flags bitmap is a logical choice here, but I found the
> > > > overhead to be non-trivial, which is why we have separate variables for
> > > > the other filtering options.
> > > 
> > > You suggest more flags for multicast etc?
> > 
> > I'm suggesting we may get slightly better performance if we use separate
> > filter_mac and filter_vlan variable flags instead of a single
> > "filtering" flags bitmap.
> 
> Why? It's a single operation anyway, and we use less cache.

Sorry, I must have been thinking of a runtime vs compile time shift.

Alex