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2009 Feb 12
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UV fastpath after Crossbow
...for this except to document this restriction.
2. VLAN kstats won''t work.
If we enable UV fastpath over VLANs, packets would go directly between the
lower VLAN stream and the IP stream over softmac, the VNIC (vlan) kstats
won''t be updated.
This could be work around by changing vnic_m_stat() function, to add up
the legacy VLAN kstat (e.g., kstat of ce1000).
3. Performance of VLAN is not optimal
In the current Crossbow code, once a VNIC (vlan) is created, the
underlying mac is started (by the code path
vnic_dev_create()->vnic_unicast_add()->i_mac_unicast_add()->mac_start...