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Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature bit to virtio_net
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:54:09AM -0700, Samudrala, Sridhar wrote: > > > > > Might not neccessarily be something wrong, but it's very limited to > > > > > prohibit the MAC of VF from changing when enslaved by failover. > > > > You mean guest changing MAC? I'm not sure why we prohibit that. > > > I think Sridhar and Jiri might be better person to answer it. My > > > impression was that sync'ing the MAC address change between all 3 > > > devices is challenging, as the failover driver uses MAC address to > > > match net_device internally. > > Yes. The MAC address is assigned by the hypervisor and it needs to manage the movement > of the MAC between the PF and VF. Allowing the guest to change the MAC will require > synchronization between the hypervisor and the PF/VF drivers. Most of the VF drivers > don't allow changing guest MAC unless it is a trusted VF. OK but it's a policy thing. Maybe it's a trusted VF. Who knows? For example I can see host just failing VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC_ADDR_SET if it wants to block it. I'm not sure why VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY has to block it in the guest. -- MST
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