From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Or Gerlitz Subject: Re: L2 switching in igb Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 11:04:39 +0300 Message-ID: <4AA8B317.2080706@voltaire.com> References: <5f2db9d90909032135l26cfdba6n52329f6be75c16a5@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" , "Fischer, Anna" , netdev@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , Stephen Hemminger To: Alexander Duyck Return-path: Received: from fwil.voltaire.com ([193.47.165.2]:35124 "EHLO exil.voltaire.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752353AbZIJIEk (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:04:40 -0400 In-Reply-To: <5f2db9d90909032135l26cfdba6n52329f6be75c16a5@mail.gmail.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Alexander Duyck wrote: > The suggestion I received from Dave and Stephen was to consider an rtnl_link_ops for > configuring the VFs, but I still have issues trying to visualize how that would work since I don't want the VFs spawning in the host/hypervisor OS as network devices. Note that VEPA mode is a characteristic of the PF, correct? and the PF resides in the host kernel. Also, as I wrote you earlier, I do see many schemes where a VF spawned in the host kernel IS very useful, and as such I'd be happy to continue the discussion on the approach suggested by Dave and Stephen, can you provide a pointer? (thanks). Or.