Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 17 Mar 2011 08:12:28 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: No iproute2 for 2.6.38 | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:14:55 -0300
> 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?
Indeed, Stephen please make a release.
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