From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
To: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: No iproute2 for 2.6.38
Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:04:41 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110316170441.351efba7@nehalam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D804EBD.4030904@us.ibm.com>
On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:46:37 -0700
Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> On 3/15/2011 7:55 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > I am not going to bother releasing for 2.6.38 the only changes
> > were later reverted.
> 2.6.38 includes support for macvlan/macvtap 'passthru' mode that allows
> assigning
> SR-IOV VFs to a KVM guest via macvtap/virtio.
> It is not possible to support live migration using direct assignment of
> VF's to a guest,
> but 'passthu' assignment makes this possible.
>
> Enabling this feature requires the following patch to iproute2 that
> allows creating macvlan
> device in 'passthru' mode.
> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/69515/
> Looks like this patch is still marked as 'Awaiting upstream'.
>
> Could you apply this patch and it would be great if a version of
> iproute2 is released for 2.6.38.
>
> Thanks
> Sridhar
>
Sorry missed it applied to repository, still not sure worth a new release.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-17 0:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-16 2:55 No iproute2 for 2.6.38 Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-16 5:46 ` Sridhar Samudrala
2011-03-17 0:04 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2011-03-17 14:14 ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-03-17 15:12 ` David Miller
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