[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] net/mlx5: use Netlink in VF mode

Shahaf Shuler shahafs at mellanox.com
Sun Apr 8 10:16:20 CEST 2018


Thursday, April 5, 2018 6:07 PM, Nelio Laranjeiro:
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 0/3] net/mlx5: use Netlink in VF mode
> 
> When MLX5 behaves in VF mode and the hypervisor have **trusted** this
> VF, to be able to receive specific traffic some requests must be done to
> configure the NIC.  There is no API currently available to do it though Verbs,
> but there is in Linux side using Netlink.
> 
> The specific cases are:
> - Enable/disable promiscuous mode.
> - Enable/disable allmulti mode.
> - Add/remove mac addresses.

Series applied to next-net-mlx, thanks.





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