[Xen-API] Re: [PATCH] Remove bond-slave filter from PIF.scan

[Ben Pfaff <blp@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Rob Hoes <rob.hoes@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> This filter uses sysfs to find out whether an interface is a
> bond slave. This does not work when the openvswitch backend is
> used. Besides, it does not seem to be necessary (anymore?)
> anyway.
>
> PIF.scan creates a new PIF for each interface it finds if this
> interface is physical and there is no PIF with the same
> MAC. The slave interfaces always have the same MAC as the bond
> master PIF (bridging backend) or their "real" MACs as stored in
> their PIFs (openvswitch backend). Therefore, when a bond is in
> effect, the MACs of all bond slaves have corresponding PIFs in
> the DB, so PIF.scan won't create new ones.

Makes sense to me.

Acked-by: Ben Pfaff <blp@xxxxxxxxxx>


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