Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:27:29 +0000 | From | David Vrabel <> | Subject | Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC v2 0/4] net: bridge / ip optimizations for virtual net backends |
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On 15/02/14 02:59, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@suse.com> > > This v2 series changes the approach from my original virtualization > multicast patch series [0] by abandoning completely the multicast > issues and instead generalizing an approach for virtualization > backends. There are two things in common with virtualization > backends: > > 0) they should not become the root bridge > 1) they don't need ipv4 / ipv6 interfaces
Why? There's no real difference between a backend network device and a physical device (from the point of view of the backend domain). I do not think these are intrinsic properties of backend devices.
I can see these being useful knobs for administrators (or management toolstacks) to turn on, on a per-device basis.
David
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