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From: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@us.ibm.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: No iproute2 for 2.6.38
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:46:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D804EBD.4030904@us.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110315195534.0cc43032@nehalam>

On 3/15/2011 7:55 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I am not going to bother releasing for 2.6.38 the only changes
> were later reverted.
2.6.38 includes support for macvlan/macvtap 'passthru' mode that allows 
assigning
SR-IOV VFs to a KVM guest via macvtap/virtio.
It is not possible to support live migration using direct assignment of 
VF's to a guest,
but 'passthu' assignment makes this possible.

Enabling this feature requires the following patch to iproute2 that 
allows creating macvlan
device in 'passthru' mode.
     http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/69515/
Looks like this patch is still marked as 'Awaiting upstream'.

Could you apply this patch and it would be great if a version of 
iproute2 is released for 2.6.38.

Thanks
Sridhar

> ---
> Roopa Prabhu (1):
>        iproute2: add VF_PORT support
>
> Stephen Hemminger (3):
>        Update to lasest kernel headers
>        Revert "iproute2: add VF_PORT support"
>        v2.6.38
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-16  5:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-16  2:55 No iproute2 for 2.6.38 Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-16  5:46 ` Sridhar Samudrala [this message]
2011-03-17  0:04   ` Stephen Hemminger
2011-03-17 14:14     ` Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
2011-03-17 15:12       ` David Miller

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