netdev - Re: sr-iov and bridges (mlx4)

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Date:	Sun, 20 Sep 2015 20:18:47 +0200
From:	Nieścierowicz Adam <adam.niescierowicz@...tnet.pl>
To:	Matthew Monaco <Matthew.Monaco@...orado.edu>
Cc:	Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@...il.com>,
	Linux Netdev List <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	netdev-owner@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sr-iov and bridges (mlx4)

Hi Matthew,
in near future i want to do exactly the same, if you make progress with 
SR-IOV+Bridge+OpenStack please leave here some advice.

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Pozdrawiam
Adam Nieścierowicz

W dniu 20.09.2015 18:21, Matthew Monaco napisał(a):

> On 09/20/2015 05:01 AM, Or Gerlitz wrote: On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 2:58 
> AM, Matthew Monaco
> <Matthew.Monaco@...orado.edu> wrote:
> [...] In all cases, VMs with SR-IOV work fine, IP on the host works 
> fine, outbound
> DHCP from the virtio VMs work fine, but inbound frames are not making 
> it back to
> the VM. [...] Is there a know limitation of mixing SR-IOV and bridges 
> in general? Does the
> SR-IOV switch specific to the mlx4 hardware not work well with linux 
> bridges? ...?
> It would be a bit hard for bridge based promiscuous environment to work 
> OOB
> for one of the functions (PF or VF) in SRIOV, this is generic issue,
> and not related
> to specific vendor.
> 
> You need to use the bridge (8) tool (part of iproute2) and add the P.V
> VM MACs to
> the PF interface as "self" see some slides (21/22/23) from netdev 0.1
> that deal with that
> https://netdev01.org/docs/netdev_tutorial_bridge_makita_150213.pdf [1]
> 
> Or.
> 
> It also possible to mark one bridge port (the PF) as non-promiscuous,
> but I haven't
> played with that myself yet (slide 32), so can't just send you doing 
> it...

  Many thanks, that helps. Now to figure out the best approach for 
shoving this
  into OpenStack =)



Links:
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[1] https://netdev01.org/docs/netdev_tutorial_bridge_makita_150213.pdf
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