[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] promiscuous mode enable on VF

[Zhao1, Wei]

From: David Marchand [mailto:david.marchand at redhat.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 4:29 PM
To: Zhao1, Wei <wei.zhao1 at intel.com>
Cc: dev at dpdk.org; dpdk stable <stable at dpdk.org>; Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>; Zhang, Qi Z <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/3] promiscuous mode enable on VF

On Wed, Jan 16, 2019 at 6:08 AM Wei Zhao <wei.zhao1 at intel.com<mailto:wei.zhao1 at intel.com>> wrote:
There is need to enable promiscuous mode enable on VF,
pf host should also enable to support that.

Zhao Wei (3):
  net/ixgbe: promiscuous mode enable on VF
  net/ixgbe: enable promiscous mode on PF host
  net/ixgbe: update API version

 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 21 +++++++++++
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h |  1 +
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_pf.c     | 79 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 3 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-)

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2.7.5

This series looks more about a missing feature than a proper fix.
We have a new pf/vf api supported in this series and a new behaviour for promiscuous.
This is not stable material to me unless you expose a clear problem that this series wants to address.

Yes, this a new feature enable related, but this patch set will not introduce problem, because vf
promiscuous mode is close by default, this set is just send out for request from users that want to use
vf promiscuous. They will open it in their APP. NOT only ixgbe, but also other NIC vf HAS SUPPORT this feature.


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David Marchand