From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shirley Ma Subject: RE: ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled Date: Mon, 24 May 2010 10:08:39 -0700 Message-ID: <1274720919.18023.19.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1274473846.8701.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F0755A79C099C@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Kirsher, Jeffrey T" , "davem@davemloft.net" , "kvm@vger.kernel.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net" To: "Rose, Gregory V" Return-path: In-Reply-To: <43F901BD926A4E43B106BF17856F0755A79C099C@orsmsx508.amr.corp.intel.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello Greg, Thanks for your prompt response. On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 10:53 -0700, Rose, Gregory V wrote: > As of 2.6.34 the ixgbe driver does not support multiple queues for > macvlan. > Support for multiple queues for macvlan will come in a subsequent > release. When it might happen? I will double check my test to see whether macvlan was multiple queue or not. Then submitting my experimental patch for review. > The VF driver does not support macvlan. Future releases may but there > are no immediate plans to support it. When it might be support in future. For performance reason, we are interested in macvlan + VF for multiples VMs. One more question here: Does VF support promiscuous mode? I don't see the flag in ixgbevf driver. Thanks Shirley