Subject: Re: No iproute2 for 2.6.38

From: Sridhar Samudrala <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:46:37 -0700

On 3/15/2011 7:55 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> I am not going to bother releasing for 2.6.38 the only changes
> were later reverted.
2.6.38 includes support for macvlan/macvtap 'passthru' mode that allows 
assigning
SR-IOV VFs to a KVM guest via macvtap/virtio.
It is not possible to support live migration using direct assignment of 
VF's to a guest,
but 'passthu' assignment makes this possible.

Enabling this feature requires the following patch to iproute2 that 
allows creating macvlan
device in 'passthru' mode.
     http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/69515/
Looks like this patch is still marked as 'Awaiting upstream'.

Could you apply this patch and it would be great if a version of 
iproute2 is released for 2.6.38.

Thanks
Sridhar

> ---
> Roopa Prabhu (1):
>        iproute2: add VF_PORT support
>
> Stephen Hemminger (3):
>        Update to lasest kernel headers
>        Revert "iproute2: add VF_PORT support"
>        v2.6.38
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