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Some PF drivers allow setting the admin MAC (that is the MAC address that the VF will be initialized to the next time the VF's driver is loaded) to 00:00:00:00:00:00, and some don't. Multiple drivers initialize the admin MACs to all 0, but don't allow setting it to that very same value. It has been an uphill battle convincing the driver people that it's reasonable to expect The argument that's used is that an all 0 device MAC address on a device is invalid; however, from an outsider's point of view, when the admin MAC is set to 0 at the time the VF driver is loaded, the VF's MAC is *not* set to 0, but to a random non-0 value. But that's beside the point - even if I could convince one or two SRIOV driver maintainers to permit setting the admin MAC to 0, there are still several other drivers. So rather than fighting that losing battle, this patch checks for a failure to set the admin MAC due to an all 0 value, and retries it with 02:00:00:00:00:00. That won't result in a random value being set in the VF MAC at next VF driver init, but that's okay, because we always want to set a specific value anyway. Rather, the "almost 0" setting makes it easy to visually detect from the output of "ip link show" which VFs are currently in use and which are free.
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>