From: Benny Amorsen <benny+usenet@amorsen.dk>
To: "Fischer\, Anna" <anna.fischer@hp.com>
Cc: "arnd@arndb.de" <arnd@arndb.de>,
Yaron Haviv <yaronh@voltaire.com>,
"bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
"virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org"
<virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org>,
"adobriyan@gmail.com" <adobriyan@gmail.com>,
"Paul Congdon \(UC Davis\)" <ptcongdon@ucdavis.edu>,
"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
"evb@yahoogroups.com" <evb@yahoogroups.com>,
"davem@davemloft.net" <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [evb] RE: [PATCH][RFC] net/bridge: add basic VEPA support
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:50:10 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3d476hepp.fsf@ursa.amorsen.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0199E0D51A61344794750DC57738F58E6D6A6CD803__29862.6656564467$1249679159$gmane$org@GVW1118EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> (Anna Fischer's message of "Fri\, 7 Aug 2009 21\:00\:54 +0000")
"Fischer, Anna" <anna.fischer@hp.com> writes:
> If you do have a SRIOV NIC that supports VEPA, then I would think that
> you do not have QEMU or macvtap in the setup any more though. Simply
> because in that case the VM can directly access the VF on the physical
> device. That would be ideal.
I'm just trying to understand how this all works, so I'm probably asking
a stupid question:
Would a SRIOV NIC with VEPA support show up as multiple devices? I.e.
would I get e.g. eth0-eth7 for a NIC with support for 8 virtual
interfaces? Would they have different MAC addresses?
/Benny
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-08-08 8:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-07 20:35 [evb] RE: [PATCH][RFC] net/bridge: add basic VEPA support Yaron Haviv
2009-08-07 21:00 ` Fischer, Anna
2009-08-08 9:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-07 21:06 ` Paul Congdon (UC Davis)
2009-08-07 21:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-09 11:19 ` Or Gerlitz
2009-08-10 15:20 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-10 15:28 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-10 16:32 ` Fischer, Anna
2009-08-10 16:51 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-10 19:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-27 12:35 ` Or Gerlitz
[not found] ` <0199E0D51A61344794750DC57738F58E6D6A6CD803__29862.6656564467$1249679159$gmane$org@GVW1118EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net>
2009-08-08 8:50 ` Benny Amorsen [this message]
2009-08-08 9:44 ` Arnd Bergmann
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-06-15 17:33 Fischer, Anna
2009-08-07 4:00 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-08-07 11:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-07 19:44 ` [evb] " Paul Congdon (UC Davis)
2009-08-10 15:23 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-08-10 15:59 ` Fischer, Anna
2009-08-10 16:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
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