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Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:14:55 -0300 From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@....eng.br> To: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com> Cc: Sridhar Samudrala <sri@...ibm.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: No iproute2 for 2.6.38 On Wed, 16 Mar 2011, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > 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. > > Sorry missed it applied to repository, still not sure worth a new release. Release early, release often. And someone actually bothered asking you to specifically, so it clearly is going to be useful to that someone. So, why not do a 2.6.38 release? -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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