[libvirt] [PATCHv2] nodedev: add switchdev to NIC capabilities

[Edan David]

Hi John,

Can we merge this commit? Does anyone else need to review?

Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Edan David 
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2017 10:18 AM
To: 'John Ferlan' <jferlan at redhat.com>; libvir-list at redhat.com
Subject: RE: [libvirt] [PATCHv2] nodedev: add switchdev to NIC capabilities

Hi John,

For some reason I don't see these errors in my environment, I would appreciate it if you could fix them before merging.
Thank you!!

-----Original Message-----
From: John Ferlan [mailto:jferlan at redhat.com]
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 8:44 PM
To: Edan David <edand at mellanox.com>; libvir-list at redhat.com
Subject: Re: [libvirt] [PATCHv2] nodedev: add switchdev to NIC capabilities



On 08/21/2017 05:19 AM, Edan David wrote:
> Adding functionality to libvirt that will allow querying the interface 
> for the availability of switchdev Offloading NIC capabilities.
> The switchdev mode was introduced in kernel 4.8, the iproute2-devlink 
> command to retrieve the swtichdev NIC feature, Command example:  
> devlink dev eswitch show pci/0000:03:00.0 This feature is needed for 
> Openstack so we can do a scheduling decision if the NIC is in Hardware 
> Offload (switchdev) or regular SR-IOV (legacy) mode.
> And select the appropriate hypervisors with the requested capability see [1].
> 
> [1] - 
> https://emea01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fspe
> cs.openstack.org%2Fopenstack%2Fnova-specs%2Fspecs%2Fpike%2Fapproved%2F
> enable-sriov-nic-features.html&data=02%7C01%7Cedand%40mellanox.com%7C7
> 58a68d1796c435a8af108d4ea4e889b%7Ca652971c7d2e4d9ba6a4d149256f461b%7C0
> %7C0%7C636391070397000461&sdata=dbe8Z6P71ZEqC3u46YB1hkmmm8pQgYpWjjVxvB
> fu5Ko%3D&reserved=0
> ---
>  configure.ac                                      |  13 ++
>  docs/formatnode.html.in                           |   1 +
>  src/util/virnetdev.c                              | 187 +++++++++++++++++++++-
>  src/util/virnetdev.h                              |   1 +
>  tests/nodedevschemadata/net_00_13_02_b9_f9_d3.xml |   1 +
>  tests/nodedevschemadata/net_00_15_58_2f_e9_55.xml |   1 +
>  6 files changed, 203 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 

Again - make check syntax-check had a failure because properly indent "#if" to be "# if" (also "# else" and "# endif")

I can fix that easily before pushing though.

Reviewed-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>

I'll wait a day before pushing - just in case laine comes back from chasing the eclipse and has a comment to make...

Tks -

John