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If an SRIOV VF has previously been used for VFIO device assignment,
the "admin MAC" that is stored in the PF driver's table of VF info
will have been set to the MAC address that the virtual machine wanted
the device to have. Setting the admin MAC for a VF also sets a flag in
the PF that is loosely called the "administratively set" flag. Once
that flag is set, it is no longer possible for the net driver of the
VF (either on the host or in a virtual machine) to directly set the
VF's MAC again; this flag isn't reset until the *PF* driver is
restarted, and that requires taking *all* VFs offline, so it's not
really feasible to do.
If the same SRIOV VF is later used for macvtap passthrough mode, the
VF's MAC address must be set, but normally we don't unbind the VF from
its host net driver (since we actually need the host net driver in
this case). Since setting the VF MAC directly will fail, in the past
"we" ("I") had tried to fix the problem by simply setting the admin MAC
(via the PF) instead. This *appeared* to work (and might have at one
time, due to promiscuous mode being turned on somewhere or something),
but it currently creates a non-working interface because only the
value for admin MAC is set to the desired value, *not* the actual MAC
that the VF is using.
Earlier patches in this series reverted that behavior, so that we once
again set the MAC of the VF itself for macvtap passthrough operation,
not the admin MAC. But that brings back the original bug - if the
interface has been used for VFIO device assignment, you can no longer
use it for macvtap passthrough.
This patch solves that problem by noticing when virNetDevSetMAC()
fails for a VF, and in that case it sets the desired MAC to the admin
MAC via the PF, then "bounces" the VF driver (by unbinding and the
immediately rebinding it to the VF). This causes the VF's MAC to be
reinitialized from the admin MAC, and everybody is happy (until the
*next* time someone wants to set the VF's MAC address, since the
"administratively set" bit is still turned on).
LibVirt : simple API for virtualization
Libvirt is a C toolkit to interact with the virtualization capabilities
of recent versions of Linux (and other OSes). It is free software
available under the GNU Lesser General Public License. Virtualization of
the Linux Operating System means the ability to run multiple instances of
Operating Systems concurrently on a single hardware system where the basic
resources are driven by a Linux instance. The library aim at providing
long term stable C API initially for the Xen paravirtualization but
should be able to integrate other virtualization mechanisms if needed.
Daniel Veillard <veillard@redhat.com>