Bond with VLAN tagging does not consistently work for SR-IOV VFs inside a VM guest

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Issue

  • Guest bond over VFs with VLAN tagging does not work as expected after bond failover.
  • Connectivity is lost to a guest VM using VFs with bonding and VLAN tagging when there is a bond failover.
  • An error from the ixgbe module is seen on the host when failover occurs:

    ixgbe 0000:01:00.0 em1: VF 0 requested MACVLAN filter but is administratively denied
    

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • SR-IOV with Intel ixgbe

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