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From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] virtio-net: help live migrate SR-IOV devices
Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 16:14:37 +0200
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On Thu, Nov 30, 2017 at 11:29:56AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> If my understanding is correct there's no need to for any extension of
> virtio spec.

There appears to be a concern that some existing configurations
might use same MAC for an unrelated reason. Not sure what
that could be, but for sure, we could add a feature flag.
That needs to be approved by the virtio TC, but it's
just a single line in the spec no big deal, we can help here.

> If this is true, maybe you can start to prepare the patch?

Yes, please do. We can add a safeguard of a feature bit on top.

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