This feature bit can be used by hypervisor to indicate virtio_net device to
act as a standby for another device with the same MAC address.
I tested this with a small change to the patch to mark the STANDBY feature 'true'
by default as i am using libvirt to start the VMs.
Is there a way to pass the newly added feature bit 'standby' to qemu via libvirt
XML file?
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx>
---
hw/net/virtio-net.c | 2 ++
include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_net.h | 3 +++
2 files changed, 5 insertions(+)
diff --git a/hw/net/virtio-net.c b/hw/net/virtio-net.c
index 90502fca7c..38b3140670 100644
--- a/hw/net/virtio-net.c
+++ b/hw/net/virtio-net.c
@@ -2198,6 +2198,8 @@ static Property virtio_net_properties[] = {
true),
DEFINE_PROP_INT32("speed", VirtIONet, net_conf.speed, SPEED_UNKNOWN),
DEFINE_PROP_STRING("duplex", VirtIONet, net_conf.duplex_str),
+ DEFINE_PROP_BIT64("standby", VirtIONet, host_features, VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY,
+ false),
DEFINE_PROP_END_OF_LIST(),
};
diff --git a/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_net.h
index e9f255ea3f..01ec09684c 100644
--- a/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_net.h
+++ b/include/standard-headers/linux/virtio_net.h
@@ -57,6 +57,9 @@
* Steering */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR 23 /* Set MAC address */
+#define VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY 62 /* Act as standby for another device
+ * with the same MAC.
+ */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX 63 /* Device set linkspeed and duplex */
#ifndef VIRTIO_NET_NO_LEGACY
--
2.14.3
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