From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Benny Amorsen Subject: Re: [evb] RE: [PATCH][RFC] net/bridge: add basic VEPA support Date: Sat, 08 Aug 2009 10:50:10 +0200 Message-ID: References: <0199E0D51A61344794750DC57738F58E6D6A6CD803__29862.6656564467$1249679159$gmane$org@GVW1118EXC.americas.hpqcorp.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "arnd@arndb.de" , Yaron Haviv , "bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org" , "adobriyan@gmail.com" , "Paul Congdon \(UC Davis\)" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , "evb@yahoogroups.com" , "davem@davemloft.net" To: "Fischer\, Anna" Return-path: 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") List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: bridge-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: bridge-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org "Fischer, Anna" 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