Re: [PATCH] qemu: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature bit to virtio_net

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On 2018年06月05日 09:41, Samudrala, Sridhar wrote:
Ping on this patch now that the kernel patches are accepted into davem's net-next tree.
https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/920005/


On 5/7/2018 4:09 PM, Sridhar Samudrala wrote:
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?


Maybe you can try qemu command line passthrough:

https://libvirt.org/drvqemu.html#qemucommand

The patch looks good to me. Let's see if Michael have any comment.

Thanks

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


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