RE: ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled

2010-05-25 Thread Shirley Ma
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 10:54 -0700, Rose, Gregory V wrote: We look forward to it and will be happy to provide feedback. I have submitted the patch to make macvlan on PF works when SRIOV is enabled. One thing you can do is allocate VFs and then load the VF driver in your host domain and then

RE: ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled

2010-05-24 Thread Shirley Ma
Hello Greg, Thanks for your prompt response. On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 10:53 -0700, Rose, Gregory V wrote: As of 2.6.34 the ixgbe driver does not support multiple queues for macvlan. Support for multiple queues for macvlan will come in a subsequent release. When it might happen? I will double

RE: ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled

2010-05-24 Thread Rose, Gregory V
-Original Message- From: Shirley Ma [mailto:mashi...@us.ibm.com] Sent: Monday, May 24, 2010 10:09 AM To: Rose, Gregory V Cc: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; da...@davemloft.net; kvm@vger.kernel.org; net...@vger.kernel.org; e1000-de...@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: RE: ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when

RE: ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled

2010-05-22 Thread Rose, Gregory V
: ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled Hello Jeff, macvlan doesn't work on PF when SRIOV is enabled. Creating macvlan has been successful, but ping (icmp request) goes to VF interface not PF/macvlan even arp entry is correct. I patched ixgbe driver, and macvlan/PF has worked with the patch

ixgbe: macvlan on PF/VF when SRIOV is enabled

2010-05-21 Thread Shirley Ma
Hello Jeff, macvlan doesn't work on PF when SRIOV is enabled. Creating macvlan has been successful, but ping (icmp request) goes to VF interface not PF/macvlan even arp entry is correct. I patched ixgbe driver, and macvlan/PF has worked with the patch. But I am not sure whether it is right since