netdev - Re: PROBLEM: Bridging does not work with Mellanox ConnectX-2 (mlx4

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Date:	Tue, 25 Jun 2013 07:45:33 +0900
From:	Pawit Pornkitprasan <p.pawit@...il.com>
To:	Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Ryousei Takano <takano-ryousei@...t.go.jp>,
	"Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@...el.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.com>, Yan Burman <yanb@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: Bridging does not work with Mellanox ConnectX-2
 (mlx4_en) card in SR-IOV mode

On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 4:42 AM, Or Gerlitz <or.gerlitz@...il.com> wrote:
> Pawit,
>
> As Greg indicdated, this (== stetting a bridge over a PF or VF in
> SRIOV moded) can actually work, if you make sure to use FDB operations
> to add the VM unicast MAC to the uplink (the mellanox device) tables,
> this is trivial (google for ndo_fdb_add ...) and should work, let us
> know if it doesn't.
>

Thank you. I will try it out.

>
> so on 3.10 it "just" doesn't work (but should as I explained above)
> but on 3.8 you're crashing? can you send the oops listings?
>

It just doesn't work on both kernels.

Thank you for your replies,
Pawit
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