Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/4] add failover feature for assigned network devices

[Jens Freimann]

On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 10:40:42PM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 08:49:18PM +0200, Jens Freimann wrote:
> > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 07:37:19AM -0400, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> > > On Tue, May 21, 2019 at 09:21:57AM +0200, Jens Freimann wrote:
> > > Actually is there a list of devices for which this has been tested
> > > besides mlx5? I think someone said some old intel cards
> > > don't support this well, we might need to blacklist these ...
> >
> > So far I've tested mlx5 and XL710 which both worked, but I'm
> > working on testing with more devices. But of course help with testing
> > is greatly appreciated.
>
> A testing tool that people can run to get a pass/fail
> result would be needed for that.
> Do you have something like this?

I have two simple tools. One that sends packets and another one that
sniffs for packets to see which device the packet goes to. Find it at
https://github.com/jensfr/netfailover_driver_detect

Feedback and/or patches welcome.

regards,
Jens