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[Qemu-devel] Re: kvm networking todo wiki
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Michael S. Tsirkin |
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[Qemu-devel] Re: kvm networking todo wiki |
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Sun, 26 Sep 2010 13:21:12 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-12-10) |
On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 03:46:22PM -0700, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 18:11 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
>
> I've put up a wiki page with a kvm networking todo list,
> mainly to avoid effort duplication, but also in the hope
> to draw attention to what I think we should try addressing
> in KVM:
>
> http://www.linux-kvm.org/page/NetworkingTodo
>
> This page could cover all networking related activity in KVM,
> currently most info is related to virtio-net.
>
> Note: if there's no developer listed for an item,
> this just means I don't know of anyone actively working
> on an issue at the moment, not that no one intends to.
>
> I would appreciate it if others working on one of the items on this list
> would add their names so we can communicate better. If others like this
> wiki page, please go ahead and add stuff you are working on if any.
>
> It would be especially nice to add autotest projects:
> there is just a short test matrix and a catch-all
> 'Cover test matrix with autotest', currently.
>
> Currently there are some links to Red Hat bugzilla entries,
> feel free to add links to other bugzillas.
>
>
> Thanks for capturing these items. It is really useful.
>
> Another item that is missing is
> - support assigning SR-IOV VF to a guest via tap/macvtap
>
> Currently, this requires
> - VF to be put in promiscuous mode when using a bridge/tap
> - add a new mac address to VF when using macvtap.
>
> I don't think any of the VF drivers provide these capabilities
> at this time.
>
> -Sridhar
I think this is part of what is needed for the work item:
* guest programmable mac/vlan filtering with macvtap
If yes pls add this detail if not add another item.
More importantly: anyone's going to work on this?
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MST