From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Subject: Re: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature bit to virtio_net Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:48:58 +0300 Message-ID: <20180620224535-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20180614120231.0a72bd5f.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180615134815.6613620e.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180619125453.2d2dfb2d.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180619233001-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180620115359.1a3bf6fb.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180620170904-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180620180619.6b4ee52d.cohuck@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Siwei Liu , "Samudrala, Sridhar" , Alexander Duyck , virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, aaron.f.brown@intel.com, Jiri Pirko , Jakub Kicinski , Netdev , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, Joao Martins , Venu Busireddy , vijay.balakrishna@oracle.com To: Cornelia Huck Return-path: Sender: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180620180619.6b4ee52d.cohuck@redhat.com> List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > In any case, I'm not sure anymore why we'd want the extra uuid. It's mostly so we can have e.g. multiple devices with same MAC (which some people seem to want in order to then use then with different containers). But it is also handy for when you assign a PF, since then you can't set the MAC. -- MST From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:49359) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVj6I-0004Dh-3M for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:49:06 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVj6E-0006Y1-7h for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:49:06 -0400 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:52616 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fVj6E-0006Wq-2c for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 15:49:02 -0400 Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:48:58 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20180620224535-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20180614120231.0a72bd5f.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180615134815.6613620e.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180619125453.2d2dfb2d.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180619233001-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180620115359.1a3bf6fb.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180620170904-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180620180619.6b4ee52d.cohuck@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180620180619.6b4ee52d.cohuck@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [virtio-dev] Re: [PATCH] qemu: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature bit to virtio_net List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: Cornelia Huck Cc: Siwei Liu , "Samudrala, Sridhar" , Alexander Duyck , virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, aaron.f.brown@intel.com, Jiri Pirko , Jakub Kicinski , Netdev , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, Joao Martins , Venu Busireddy , vijay.balakrishna@oracle.com On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > In any case, I'm not sure anymore why we'd want the extra uuid. It's mostly so we can have e.g. multiple devices with same MAC (which some people seem to want in order to then use then with different containers). But it is also handy for when you assign a PF, since then you can't set the MAC. -- MST From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: virtio-dev-return-4464-cohuck=redhat.com@lists.oasis-open.org Sender: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: Received: from lists.oasis-open.org (oasis-open.org [66.179.20.138]) by lists.oasis-open.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B29415819138 for ; Wed, 20 Jun 2018 12:49:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2018 22:48:58 +0300 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" Message-ID: <20180620224535-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> References: <20180614120231.0a72bd5f.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180615134815.6613620e.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180619125453.2d2dfb2d.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180619233001-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180620115359.1a3bf6fb.cohuck@redhat.com> <20180620170904-mutt-send-email-mst@kernel.org> <20180620180619.6b4ee52d.cohuck@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20180620180619.6b4ee52d.cohuck@redhat.com> Subject: Re: [virtio-dev] Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu: Introduce VIRTIO_NET_F_STANDBY feature bit to virtio_net To: Cornelia Huck Cc: Siwei Liu , "Samudrala, Sridhar" , Alexander Duyck , virtio-dev@lists.oasis-open.org, aaron.f.brown@intel.com, Jiri Pirko , Jakub Kicinski , Netdev , qemu-devel@nongnu.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, konrad.wilk@oracle.com, boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com, Joao Martins , Venu Busireddy , vijay.balakrishna@oracle.com List-ID: On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 06:06:19PM +0200, Cornelia Huck wrote: > In any case, I'm not sure anymore why we'd want the extra uuid. It's mostly so we can have e.g. multiple devices with same MAC (which some people seem to want in order to then use then with different containers). But it is also handy for when you assign a PF, since then you can't set the MAC. -- MST --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: virtio-dev-unsubscribe@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: virtio-dev-help@lists.oasis-open.org