Re: [RFC PATCH v3 0/3] Enable virtio_net to act as a backup for a passthru device
From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: 2018-02-26 07:19:24
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From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Date: 2018-02-26 07:19:24
Also in:
virtualization
Sat, Feb 24, 2018 at 12:59:04AM CET, stephen@networkplumber.org wrote:
On Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:30:12 -0800 Alexander Duyck [off-list ref] wrote:quoted
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Again, I undertand your motivation. Yet I don't like your solution. But if the decision is made to do this in-driver bonding. I would like to see it baing done some generic way: 1) share the same "in-driver bonding core" code with netvsc put to net/core. 2) the "in-driver bonding core" will strictly limit the functionality, like active-backup mode only, one vf, one backup, vf netdev type check (so noone could enslave a tap or anything else) If user would need something more, he should employ team/bond.Sharing would be good, but netvsc world would really like to only have one visible network device.
Why do you mind? All would be the same, there would be just another netdevice unused by the vm user (same as the vf netdev).