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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Hi all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">When SR-IOV introduce in Juno the SR-IOV Agent supported only link state change.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">Some Intel cards don't support setting link state, so to<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">resolve it the SR-IOV mechanism driver supports agent and agent less mode.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">From Liberty the SR-IOV agent brings more functionality like<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"">qos and port security so we want to make the agent mandatory.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<pre>I have already talked to pczesno from Intel and got his approval in the pci meeting [1]<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>For this to happen commit [2] and [3] need to be approved.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
<pre>If anyone objects to this change now is the time to speak.<o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre><o:p> </o:p></pre>
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<pre>[1] - <a href="http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/pci_passthrough/2015/pci_passthrough.2015-06-23-13.09.log.txt">http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/meetings/pci_passthrough/2015/pci_passthrough.2015-06-23-13.09.log.txt</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>[2] - sriov: update port state even if ip link fails - <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/195060/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/195060/</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre>[3] – SR-IOV: deprecate agent_required option - <a href="https://review.openstack.org/#/c/214324/">https://review.openstack.org/#/c/214324/</a><o:p></o:p></pre>
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<pre>Thanks, <o:p></o:p></pre>
<pre> Moshe Levi <o:p></o:p></pre>
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