Messages in this thread | | | From | KY Srinivasan <> | Subject | RE: [PATCH 1/1] hv_netvsc: Implement support for VF drivers on Hyper-V | Date | Thu, 14 Apr 2016 19:08:29 +0000 |
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> -----Original Message----- > From: K. Y. Srinivasan [mailto:kys@microsoft.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 4:58 PM > To: davem@davemloft.net; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux- > kernel@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org; olaf@aepfle.de; > apw@canonical.com; jasowang@redhat.com > Cc: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> > Subject: [PATCH 1/1] hv_netvsc: Implement support for VF drivers on Hyper- > V > > Support VF drivers on Hyper-V. On Hyper-V, each VF instance presented to > the guest has an associated synthetic interface that shares the MAC address > with the VF instance. Typically these are bonded together to support > live migration. By default, the host delivers all the incoming packets > on the synthetic interface. Once the VF is up, we need to explicitly switch > the data path on the host to divert traffic onto the VF interface. Even after > switching the data path, broadcast and multicast packets are always > delivered > on the synthetic interface and these will have to be injected back onto the > VF interface (if VF is up). > This patch implements the necessary support in netvsc to support Linux > VF drivers.
David,
Please drop this patch. I just discovered a merge issue and I am going to resubmit this patch.
Regards,
K. Y
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