This feature bit can be used by hypervisor to indicate virtio_net device to
act as a master for a directly attached passthru device with the same MAC
address.
Signed-off-by: Sridhar Samudrala <sridhar.samudr...@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/virtio_net.c | 3 ++-
include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
index 6fb7b658a6cc..46844a1d9a62 100644
--- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c
@@ -2796,7 +2796,8 @@ static struct virtio_device_id id_table[] = {
VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN, \
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_MTU, VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_GUEST_OFFLOADS, \
+ VIRTIO_NET_F_MASTER
static unsigned int features[] = {
VIRTNET_FEATURES,
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
index fc353b518288..a9b4e0836786 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/virtio_net.h
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_MQ 22 /* Device supports Receive Flow
* Steering */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_MAC_ADDR 23 /* Set MAC address */
+#define VIRTIO_NET_F_MASTER 62 /* act as master for a VF device */
#ifndef VIRTIO_NET_NO_LEGACY
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_GSO 6 /* Host handles pkts w/ any GSO type */
--
2.14.3
