On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 06:21:55PM -0700, Siwei Liu wrote:

On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 7:59 AM, Cornelia Huck [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:48:58 +0300
"Michael S. Tsirkin" [off-list ref] wrote:

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On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote:

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In any case, I'm not sure anymore why we'd want the extra uuid.

It's mostly so we can have e.g. multiple devices with same MAC
(which some people seem to want in order to then use
then with different containers).

But it is also handy for when you assign a PF, since then you
can't set the MAC.

OK, so what about the following:

- introduce a new feature bit, VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY_UUID that indicates
  that we have a new uuid field in the virtio-net config space
- in QEMU, add a property for virtio-net that allows to specify a uuid,
  offer VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY_UUID if set
- when configuring, set the property to the group UUID of the vfio-pci
  device

If feature negotiation fails on VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY_UUID, is it safe
to still expose UUID in the config space on virtio-pci?

Yes but guest is not supposed to read it.

I'm not even sure if it's sane to expose group UUID on the PCI bridge
where the corresponding vfio-pci device attached to for a guest which
doesn't support the feature (legacy).

-Siwei

Yes but you won't add the primary behind such a bridge.

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- in the guest, use the uuid from the virtio-net device's config space
  if applicable; else, fall back to matching by MAC as done today

That should work for all virtio transports.