[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 01/13] net/mlx5: add representor recognition on kernels 5.x

Shahaf Shuler shahafs at mellanox.com
Tue Mar 26 20:37:25 CET 2019


Tuesday, March 26, 2019 5:35 PM, Viacheslav Ovsiienko:
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 01/13] net/mlx5: add representor recognition
> on kernels 5.x
> 
> The master device and VF representors were distinguished by presence of
> port name, master device did not have one. The new Linux kernels starting
> from 5.0 provide the port name for master device and the implemented
> representor recognizing method does not work.
> The new recognizing method is based on querying the VF number, has been
> created on the base of the device.
> 
> The IFLA_NUM_VF attribute is returned by kernel if IFLA_EXT_MASK
> attribute is specified in the Netlink request message.
> 
> Also the presence check of device symlink in device sysfs folder is added to
> distinguish representors with sysfs based method.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at mellanox.com>

Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shahafs at mellanox.com>


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