On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 10:11 AM, Jiri Pirko <j...@resnulli.us> wrote: > Wed, Feb 21, 2018 at 09:57:09PM CET, alexander.du...@gmail.com wrote:
>>The signaling isn't too much of an issue since we can just tweak the >>link state of the VF or virtio manually to report the link up or down >>prior to the hot-plug. Now that we are on the same page with the team0 > Oh, so you just do "ip link set vfrepresentor down" in the host. > That makes sense. I'm pretty sure that this is not implemented for all > drivers now. mlx5 supports that, on the representor close ndo we take the VF link operational v-link down We should probably also put into the picture some/more aspects from the host side of things. The provisioning of the v-switch now have to deal with two channels going into the VM, the PV (virtio) one and the PT (VF) one. This should probably boil down to apply teaming/bonding between the VF representor and a PV backend device, e.g TAP.
