Re: [E1000-devel] discussion questions: SR-IOV, virtualization, and bonding

On Thu, 2012-08-02 at 21:50 -0700, John Fastabend wrote:

On 8/2/2012 4:01 PM, Jay Vosburgh wrote:

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quoted

	Still, though, isn't "influence the guest's choice" pretty much
satisified by having the VF interface go carrier down in the guest when
the host wants it to?  Or are you thinking about more fine grained than
that?

Perhaps one argument against this is if the hardware supports loopback
modes or the edge relay in the hardware is acting like a VEB it may
still be possible to support VF to VF traffic even if the external link
is down. Not sure how useful this is though or if any existing hardware
even supports it.

[...]

It seems to me that VF to VF traffic ought to still work.  If it doesn't
then that's an unfortunate regression when moving from software bridging
and virtio to hardware-supported network virtualisation.  (But hybrid
network virtualisation may help to solve that.)

Ben.

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