[libvirt] [PATCH 3/4] virnetdevvportprofile: Changes to support portprofiles for hostdevs

[Roopa Prabhu]

On 3/2/12 9:21 AM, "Gerhard Stenzel" <gstenzel at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2012-03-02 at 14:27 -0500, Laine Stump wrote:
>> So, at the end of this, is there *any* 802.1QbX mode that can work
>> using
>> PCI passthrough without at least one of the following things:
>> 
>> 1) a macvtap interface on the host. (what about my idea of attaching a
>> macvtap interface to the PF? does that have any hint of practicality?)
>> 
>> 2) extending the protocol for talking with lldpad to support using a
>> raw
>> PCI device rather than a macvtap device.
> 
>> 3) the guest doing vlan tagging
>> 
>> 4) the guest doing the full 802.1QbX associate/de-associate protocol
>> exchange itself?
>> 
>> Nobody has said it explicitly yet (I think), but I have the impression
>> that this problem unfortunately can't be solved by libvirt alone. If
>> that's the case, we should state that as soon as possible so that we
>> can
>> table the <virtualport> part of these patches for the short term, and
>> separate the mac address part to get it pushed upstream (along with
>> the
>> new low-level PCI utility functions), as that is very useful on its
>> own.
> 
> I am not sure I can follow the conclusion that this can not be solved in
> libvirt alone. 
> Qbg:
> For the macvtap case, the macvtap device is "attached" to the underlying
> physical interface and this is where the association request is sent to,
> via lldpad.
> For the PCI passthrough case, the same must be possible, assuming the
> physical interface can be concluded from the PCI device and the VLAN
> information is provided.
> 
> Or do I miss something?
> 
Wondering if we simplify this to only support sriov devices and
for 802.1Qbg all config can be done via the PF netdevice.

Am assuming the vlan info has to only reach lldpad daemon and you don't
really need a vlan device on host.

In which case, your new xml syntax with vlanid should work I think.
- we send the mac, vlan and port profile info to lldpad via the PF with vf
index using the current IFLA_VF_MAC and IFLA_VF_PORT. No ?

Thanks,
Roopa