[Bridge] [PATCH 0/3] macvlan: support for guest vm direct rx/tx

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:55:06 -0500
Patrick Mullaney <pmullaney at novell.com> wrote:

> These patches allow other modules to override the receive
> path of a macvlan. This is being done to support guest
> VMs operating directly over a macvlan. Routines to allow
> creation and deletion of macvlans from in-kernel modules
> were also exposed/added.

Which guest VM, how will it use it? The kernel is not in the business
of providing infrastructure for out of tree patches.

Also, macvlan should really being calling netif_receive_skb()
not going through another queue/softirq cycle.