From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@gmail.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
Ali Ayoub <ali@mellanox.com>, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
ogerlitz@mellanox.com, roland@kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
sean.hefty@intel.com, erezsh@mellanox.co.il, dledford@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 09/12] net/eipoib: Add main driver functionality
Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2012 13:36:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120812103642.GH1421@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJZOPZ+JKZAxF-SaWxCd_8pLqhrLXrPyQHEo0n-gNzuvMOA02w@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 07:34:23AM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:
> > Infiniband is standard enough you could quite easily implement virtual
> > infiniband bridging as an alternative to ethernet bridging.
>
> Not really, as Michael indicated in his response over this thread
> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=134419288218373&w=2
> IPoIB link layer addresses use IB HW constructs for which soft
> hardware address setting isn't supported, and this interferes
> with live migration.
>
> Or.
But I'd just like to point out your code does not support softmac
either.
--
MST
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-12 10:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 71+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-01 17:09 [PATCH V2 00/12] Add Ethernet IPoIB driver Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 01/12] IB/ipoib: Add rtnl_link_ops support Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 02/12] IB/ipoib: Add support for clones / multiple childs on the same partition Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 03/12] include/linux: Add private flags for IPoIB interfaces Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 04/12] IB/ipoib: Add support for acting as VIF Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 05/12] net: Add ndo_set_vif_param operation to serve eIPoIB VIFs Or Gerlitz
2012-08-02 0:17 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-02 8:25 ` Erez Shitrit
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 06/12] net/core: Add rtnetlink support to vif parameters Or Gerlitz
2012-08-02 0:20 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-02 15:29 ` Erez Shitrit
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 07/12] net/eipoib: Add private header file Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 08/12] net/eipoib: Add ethtool file support Or Gerlitz
2012-08-02 0:22 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-02 8:35 ` Erez Shitrit
2012-08-02 15:42 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 09/12] net/eipoib: Add main driver functionality Or Gerlitz
2012-08-02 17:15 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-03 20:31 ` Ali Ayoub
2012-08-03 21:33 ` David Miller
2012-08-03 22:39 ` Ali Ayoub
2012-08-03 23:36 ` David Miller
2012-08-04 21:23 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-04 21:44 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-04 23:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-07 0:14 ` Ali Ayoub
2012-08-07 0:44 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-07 1:21 ` Re[2]: " Naoto MATSUMOTO
2012-08-15 9:10 ` Re[3]: " Naoto MATSUMOTO
2012-08-07 3:33 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-08 6:04 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-08 8:36 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-09 4:06 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 14:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-07 3:37 ` Joseph Glanville
2012-08-08 7:32 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-08 9:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-09 4:34 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 10:36 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2012-08-04 0:02 ` Ali Ayoub
2012-08-04 0:05 ` David Miller
2012-08-04 1:34 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-04 21:33 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-05 18:50 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-08 5:23 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 10:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-12 13:09 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 13:41 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-12 13:15 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 13:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-12 14:13 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 20:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-14 8:44 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-20 18:57 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-23 6:45 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-14 7:41 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 10:54 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-08-12 13:19 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-12 15:40 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-08-13 8:33 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-13 16:08 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-03 20:53 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-09-03 21:22 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 18:50 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-09-04 19:31 ` Eric W. Biederman
2012-09-04 19:47 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-09-04 21:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-09-04 18:57 ` Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 10/12] net/eipoib: Add sysfs support Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 11/12] net/eipoib: Add Makefile, Kconfig and MAINTAINERS entries Or Gerlitz
2012-08-01 17:09 ` [PATCH V2 12/12] IB/ipoib: Add support for transmission of skbs w.o dst/neighbour Or Gerlitz
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