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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <alexander.duyck@gmail.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@wp.pl>,
	"Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>,
	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, "Brandeburg,
	Jesse" <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>,
	"Duyck, Alexander H" <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>,
	Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>, Siwei Liu <loseweigh@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a passthru device
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:07:17 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180222130717.GE1994@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ3xEMiWUY1-zoFTJ9C9QeAGt24bVg-kKO8RkvRa8Agaf2R+0A@mail.gmail.com>

Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 12:54:45PM CET, gerlitz.or@gmail.com wrote:
>On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> wrote:
>> Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 09:57:09PM CET, alexander.duyck@gmail.com wrote:
>
>>>The signaling isn't too much of an issue since we can just tweak the
>>>link state of the VF or virtio manually to report the link up or down
>>>prior to the hot-plug. Now that we are on the same page with the team0
>
>> Oh, so you just do "ip link set vfrepresentor down" in the host.
>> That makes sense. I'm pretty sure that this is not implemented for all
>> drivers now.
>
>mlx5 supports that, on the representor close ndo we take the VF link
>operational v-link down
>
>We should probably also put into the picture some/more aspects
>from the host side of things. The provisioning of the v-switch now
>have to deal with two channels going into the VM, the PV (virtio)
>one and the PT (VF) one.
>
>This should probably boil down to apply teaming/bonding between
>the VF representor and a PV backend device, e.g TAP.

Yes, that is correct.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-22 13:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-16 18:11 [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a passthru device Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-16 18:11 ` [RFC PATCH v3 1/3] virtio_net: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_BACKUP feature bit Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-16 18:11 ` [RFC PATCH v3 2/3] virtio_net: Extend virtio to use VF datapath when available Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-17  3:04   ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-02-17 17:41     ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-16 18:11 ` [RFC PATCH v3 3/3] virtio_net: Enable alternate datapath without creating an additional netdev Sridhar Samudrala
2018-02-17  2:38 ` [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a passthru device Jakub Kicinski
2018-02-17 17:12   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-19  6:11     ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-02-20 16:26       ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-21 23:50     ` Siwei Liu
2018-02-22  0:17       ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-22  1:59         ` Siwei Liu
2018-02-22  2:35           ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-22  3:28             ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-23 22:22             ` Siwei Liu
2018-02-23 22:38               ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-24  0:17                 ` Siwei Liu
2018-02-24  0:03         ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-25 22:17           ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-20 10:42 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-20 16:04   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-20 16:29     ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-20 17:14       ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-20 20:14         ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-20 21:02           ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-20 22:33           ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-02-21  9:51             ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-21 15:56               ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 16:11                 ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-21 16:49                   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 16:58                     ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-21 17:56                       ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-21 19:38                         ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-21 20:57                           ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-22  2:02                             ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-02-22  2:15                               ` Samudrala, Sridhar
2018-02-22  8:11                             ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-22 11:54                               ` Or Gerlitz
2018-02-22 13:07                                 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2018-02-22 15:30                                   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-22 21:30                               ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-23 23:59                                 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-25 22:21                                   ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-26  7:19                                   ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-27  1:02                                     ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-02-27  1:18                                       ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-27  8:27                                         ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-20 17:23       ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-20 19:53         ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-27  8:49     ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-27 21:16       ` Alexander Duyck
2018-02-27 21:23         ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-27 21:41         ` Jakub Kicinski
2018-02-28  7:08           ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-28 14:32             ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-28 15:11               ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-28 15:45                 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-28 19:25                   ` Jiri Pirko
2018-02-28 20:48                     ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2018-02-27 21:30       ` Michael S. Tsirkin

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