netdev - Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature bit to virtio

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Message-ID: <CADGSJ204fgdnafRsrzMVh+SeBCj3-z_twS9B+7g8iiOaUQGW5g@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:38:26 -0700
From:   Siwei Liu <loseweigh@...il.com>
To:     "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>
Cc:     "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@...el.com>,
        Cornelia Huck <cohuck@...hat.com>,
        Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>,
        virtio-dev@...ts.oasis-open.org, aaron.f.brown@...el.com,
        Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>, Jakub Kicinski <kubakici@...pl>,
        Netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, qemu-devel@...gnu.org,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, konrad.wilk@...cle.com,
        boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com,
        Joao Martins <joao.m.martins@...cle.com>,
        Venu Busireddy <venu.busireddy@...cle.com>,
        vijay.balakrishna@...cle.com
Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: Introduce
 VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature bit to virtio_net

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 6:50 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 10:54:09AM -0700, Samudrala, Sridhar wrote:
>> > > > > Might not neccessarily be something wrong, but it's very limited to
>> > > > > prohibit the MAC of VF from changing when enslaved by failover.
>> > > > You mean guest changing MAC? I'm not sure why we prohibit that.
>> > > I think Sridhar and Jiri might be better person to answer it. My
>> > > impression was that sync'ing the MAC address change between all 3
>> > > devices is challenging, as the failover driver uses MAC address to
>> > > match net_device internally.
>>
>> Yes. The MAC address is assigned by the hypervisor and it needs to manage the movement
>> of the MAC between the PF and VF.  Allowing the guest to change the MAC will require
>> synchronization between the hypervisor and the PF/VF drivers. Most of the VF drivers
>> don't allow changing guest MAC unless it is a trusted VF.
>
> OK but it's a policy thing. Maybe it's a trusted VF. Who knows?
> For example I can see host just
> failing VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_MAC_ADDR_SET if it wants to block it.
> I'm not sure why VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY has to block it in the guest.

That's why I think pairing using MAC is fragile IMHO. When VF's MAC
got changed before virtio attempts to match and pair the device, it
ends up with no pairing found out at all. UUID is better.

-Siwei

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