On Fri, Dec 04, 2020 at 10:53:28AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > On 2020/12/3 下午8:24, Eli Cohen wrote: > > > > It is mentioned in Parav's patchset that this will be coming in a > > > > subsequent patch to his vdpa tool. > > > So I think kernel has two options: > > > - require a mac when device is created, we supply it to guest > > Yes, the driver should always set VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC and provide a MAC - > > either random or whatever configured using the vdpa too. > > > A questions here, I think current mlx5 vdpa works for VF only. So I think > the VF should have a given MAC? If yes, can we use that MAC? > The MAC assigned to VF is by the NIC implementation. Both ther regular NIC driver and the VDPA implementation can co-exist so we can't use the NIC's MAC for VDPA. We want to steer traffic based on its destination MAC address to either VDPA or regular NIC.
