Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 07:06:57PM CEST, sridhar.samudr...@intel.com 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.
>
>VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY is defined as bit 62 as it is a device feature bit.
>
>Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudr...@intel.com>
>---
> drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 2 +-
> include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 3 +++
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
>diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>index 3b5991734118..51a085b1a242 100644
>--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
>@@ -2999,7 +2999,7 @@ static struct virtio_device_id id_table[] = {
> VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE, VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ, \
> VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR, \
> VIRTIO_NET_F_MTU, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS, \
>- VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX
>+ VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX, VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY
This is not part of current qemu master (head
6f0c4706b35dead265509115ddbd2a8d1af516c1)
Were I can find the qemu code?
Also, I think it makes sense to push HW (qemu HW in this case) first
and only then the driver.
>
> static unsigned int features[] = {
> VIRTNET_FEATURES,
>diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
>index 5de6ed37695b..a3715a3224c1 100644
>--- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
>+++ b/include/uapi/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
>
