Re: No iproute2 for 2.6.38

From: Stephen Hemminger
Date: Wed Mar 16 2011 - 20:04:52 EST


On Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:46:37 -0700
Sridhar Samudrala <sri@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 3/15/2011 7:55 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > I am not going to bother releasing for 2.6.38 the only changes
> > were later reverted.
> 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.
>
> Thanks
> Sridhar
>

Sorry missed it applied to repository, still not sure worth a new release.


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