On Wed, Feb 28, 2018 at 08:08:39AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote: > Tue, Feb 27, 2018 at 10:41:49PM CET, kubak...@wp.pl wrote: > >On Tue, 27 Feb 2018 13:16:21 -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote: > >> Basically we need some sort of PCI or PCIe topology mapping for the > >> devices that can be translated into something we can communicate over > >> the communication channel. > > > >Hm. This is probably a completely stupid idea, but if we need to > >start marshalling configuration requests/hints maybe the entire problem > >could be solved by opening a netlink socket from hypervisor? Even make > >teamd run on the hypervisor side... > > Interesting. That would be more trickier then just to fwd 1 genetlink > socket to the hypervisor. > > Also, I think that the solution should handle multiple guest oses. What > I'm thinking about is some generic bonding description passed over some > communication channel into vm. The vm either use it for configuration, > or ignores it if it is not smart enough/updated enough.
For sure, we could build virtio-bond to pass that info to guests. Such an advisory mechanism would not be a replacement for the mandatory passthrough fallback flag proposed, but OTOH it's much more flexible. -- MST --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
