Mitch, Bugzilla wouldn't let me add you to the CC, so FYI... Thanks,
Alex On Thu, 2013-03-21 at 21:29 +0000, bugzilla-dae...@bugzilla.kernel.org wrote: > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55421 > > > Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com> changed: > > What |Removed |Added > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > CC| |alex.william...@redhat.com, > | |jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com > > > > > --- Comment #4 from Alex Williamson <alex.william...@redhat.com> 2013-03-21 > 21:29:09 --- > Further bisected to: > > commit 5ac6f91d39e0884813dc010e14552143cd1d0d8b > Author: Mitch A Williams <mitch.a.willi...@intel.com> > Date: Fri Jan 18 08:57:20 2013 +0000 > > igb: Don't give VFs random MAC addresses > > If the user has not assigned a MAC address to a VM, then don't give it a > random one. Instead, just give it zeros and let it figure out what to do > with them. > > Signed-off-by: Mitch Williams <mitch.a.willi...@intel.com> > CC: Andy Gospodarek <a...@greyhouse.net> > CC: Stefan Assmann <sassm...@kpanic.de> > Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.br...@intel.com> > Tested-by: Stefan Assmann <sassm...@redhat.com> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirs...@intel.com> > > So, for whatever reason we no longer assign a random MAC address when using > the > device in a VM (but we do still use one if attached to igbvf in the host). I > expect we'll eventually see this on all the Intel SR-IOV NICs. The solution > is > to use the ip command to assign the VF a valid MAC address prior to using it > with KVM. I'll let those who made the change defend it further if they wish. > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
