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RE: [PATCH 1/1] hv_netvsc: Implement support for VF drivers on Hyper-V

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: K. Y. Srinivasan [mailto:kys@microsoft.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2016 4:58 PM
> To: davem@davemloft.net; netdev@vger.kernel.org; linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org; olaf@aepfle.de;
> apw@canonical.com; jasowang@redhat.com
> Cc: KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] hv_netvsc: Implement support for VF drivers on Hyper-
> V
> 
> Support VF drivers on Hyper-V. On Hyper-V, each VF instance presented to
> the guest has an associated synthetic interface that shares the MAC address
> with the VF instance. Typically these are bonded together to support
> live migration. By default, the host delivers all the incoming packets
> on the synthetic interface. Once the VF is up, we need to explicitly switch
> the data path on the host to divert traffic onto the VF interface. Even after
> switching the data path, broadcast and multicast packets are always
> delivered
> on the synthetic interface and these will have to be injected back onto the
> VF interface (if VF is up).
> This patch implements the necessary support in netvsc to support Linux
> VF drivers.

David,

Please drop this patch. I just discovered a merge issue and I am going to resubmit this
patch.

Regards,

K. Y

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[PATCH 1/1] hv_netvsc: Implement support for VF drivers on Hyper-V "K. Y. Srinivasan" <kys@microsoft.com> - 2016-04-14 00:30 +0200
  RE: [PATCH 1/1] hv_netvsc: Implement support for VF drivers on  Hyper-V KY Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> - 2016-04-14 21:30 +0200

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