[libvirt] [PATCHv2 0/2] macvtap: don't use netlink to save/set mac for macvtap+passthrough+802.1Qbh

[Laine Stump]

These two patches are the v2 of a single patch that I sent last
week:

  https://www.redhat.com/archives/libvir-list/2015-August/msg00889.html

At the time I sent that patch, I had no hardware to test it on, but
was operating on a misunderstood assumption - someone in the know had
told me that libvirt didn't need to save/restore the MAC address of
VFs for 802.1Qbh macvtap passthrough, and I extrapolated from there
that we didn't need to *set* the MAC address of the VF either. This
makes sense, since that is what happens for 802.1Qbh *device*
passthrough, but based on my own tests the 802.1Qbh "associate" fails
unless libvirt sets the VF's MAC address prior to associate.

So this patch takes a different approach from V1 - instead of
completely skipping the save/set/restore of MAC address for VFs that
are using 802.1Qbh, it still does it, but uses the "old" method of
ioctl(SIOCGIFHWADDR) and ioctl(SIOCSIFHWADDR).

I *did* have the proper hardware to test this time, and it works (both
for a Cisco VMFEX card using 802.1Qbh and for an Intel 82576 card with
straight macvtap passthrough).


Laine Stump (2):
  util: make virNetDev(Replace|Restore)MacAddress public functions
  util: don't use netlink to save/set mac for
    macvtap+passthrough+802.1Qbh

 src/libvirt_private.syms    |   2 +
 src/util/virnetdev.c        | 172 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
 src/util/virnetdev.h        |  10 +++
 src/util/virnetdevmacvlan.c |  26 +++++--
 4 files changed, 121 insertions(+), 89 deletions(-)

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