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Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] virtio_net: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_MASTER feature bit

From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
Date: 2018-01-03 17:43:04

On Tue, Jan 02, 2018 at 04:35:37PM -0800, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
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This feature bit can be used by hypervisor to indicate virtio_net device to
act as a master for a directly attached passthru device with the same MAC
address.

Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/virtio_net.c        | 3 ++-
 include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 6fb7b658a6cc..46844a1d9a62 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -2796,7 +2796,8 @@ static struct virtio_device_id id_table[] = {
 	VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN, \
 	VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE, VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ, \
 	VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR, \
-	VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS
+	VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS, \
+	VIRTIO_NET_F_MASTER
 
 static unsigned int features[] = {
 	VIRTNET_FEATURES,
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
index fc353b518288..a9b4e0836786 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
 #define VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ	22	/* Device supports Receive Flow
 					 * Steering */
 #define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR 23	/* Set MAC address */
+#define VIRTIO_NET_F_MASTER	62	/* act as master for a VF device */
Well the virtio hardware doesn't really know whether it's a master or
the slave of a bond. In fact quite possibly down the road we'll add a
virtual device on top as others seem to want to do - that other one will
be the master then.

And we do nothing do check it's a VF.

So maybe a better name would be

#define VIRTIO_NET_F_BACKUP	62	/* Act as backup for another device with the same MAC */
 
 #ifndef VIRTIO_NET_NO_LEGACY
 #define VIRTIO_NET_F_GSO	6	/* Host handles pkts w/ any GSO type */
-- 
2.14.3
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