From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=45844 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OzpOJ-0002V0-5F for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 07:27:36 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzpOH-0006lM-Ev for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 07:27:34 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:22319) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OzpOH-0006lC-7e for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2010 07:27:33 -0400 Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:21:12 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20100926112112.GB18408@redhat.com> References: <20100921161124.GC22845@redhat.com> <4C9A873E.6010403@us.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4C9A873E.6010403@us.ibm.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: kvm networking todo wiki List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Sridhar Samudrala Cc: Krishna Kumar2 , lmr@redhat.com, "Xin, Xiaohui" , Rusty Russell , akong@redhat.com, kvm@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Shirley Ma , David Stevens , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, herbert@gondor.hengli.com.au, jdike@linux.intel.com, sri@linux.vnet.ibm.com On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 03:46:22PM -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote: > On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 18:11 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >=20 > I've put up a wiki page with a kvm networking todo list, > mainly to avoid effort duplication, but also in the hope > to draw attention to what I think we should try addressing > in KVM: >=20 > http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/NetworkingTodo >=20 > This page could cover all networking related activity in KVM, > currently most info is related to virtio-net. >=20 > Note: if there's no developer listed for an item, > this just means I don't know of anyone actively working > on an issue at the moment, not that no one intends to. >=20 > I would appreciate it if others working on one of the items on this= list > would add their names so we can communicate better. If others like= this > wiki page, please go ahead and add stuff you are working on if any. >=20 > It would be especially nice to add autotest projects: > there is just a short test matrix and a catch-all > 'Cover test matrix with autotest', currently. >=20 > Currently there are some links to Red Hat bugzilla entries, > feel free to add links to other bugzillas. >=20 >=20 > Thanks for capturing these items. It is really useful. >=20 > Another item that is missing is > - support assigning SR-IOV VF to a guest via tap/macvtap >=20 > Currently, this requires > =A0- VF to be put in promiscuous mode when using a bridge/tap > =A0- add a new mac address to VF when using macvtap. >=20 > I don't think any of the VF drivers provide these capabilities > at this time. >=20 > -Sridhar I think this is part of what is needed for the work item: * guest programmable mac/vlan filtering with macvtap=20 If yes pls add this detail if not add another item. More importantly: anyone's going to work on this? --=20 MST