Comment 6 for bug 1500993

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OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack) wrote : Fix merged to neutron (master)

Reviewed: https://review.openstack.org/246923
Committed: https://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/neutron/commit/?id=2c60278992d5a217241054444ed0ca6e1d2f3e5c
Submitter: Jenkins
Branch: master

commit 2c60278992d5a217241054444ed0ca6e1d2f3e5c
Author: Brent Eagles <email address hidden>
Date: Mon Nov 9 09:26:53 2015 -0330

    Adding a VNIC type for physical functions

    This change adds a new VNIC type to distinguish between virtual and
    physical functions in SR-IOV.

    The new VNIC type 'direct-physical' deviates from the behavior of
    'direct' VNICs for virtual functions. While neutron tracks the resource
    as a port, it does not currently perform any management functions.
    Future changes may extend the segment mapping functionality that is
    currently based on agent configuration to include direct types.
    However, the direct-physical VNICs will not have functional parity with
    the other SR-IOV VNIC types in that quality of service and port security
    functionality is not available.

    APIImpact
    DocImpact: Add description for new 'direct-physical' VNIC type.

    Closes-Bug: #1500993

    Change-Id: If1ab969c2002c649a3d51635ca2765c262e2d37f