[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/i40e: no more initial VF MAC address

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 1/18/2017 1:45 AM, Qi Zhang wrote:
> During PF initialization, PF will generate an initial mac
> address for VFs, the purpose is to help VF keep a constant
> mac address between startup/shutdown cycles. 

I believe below does not provide permanent MAC address, PF assign a
random mac address to its VFs on each PF initialization.

> Now this is not
> necessary, since we already provide an API to set VF mac
> address from PF side (rte_pmd_i40e_set_vf_addr). 

rte_pmd_i40e_set_vf_mac_addr?

> Application
> can use this API to lock down VF's mac address.

As far as I can see how it was (before this patch):

1- During PF init, assign random MAC to VFs.
2- Application can overwrite VF MAC address with above API.
3- During VF init, if there is a valid MAC assigned by PF use it.
4- During VF init, if PF not assigned MAC, assign a random one.

So this patch removes above step 1.

Overall even if application will explicitly assign a MAC to VF or not,
VF will have a valid MAC address. So patch looks good, just please
reword commit log to describe above.

> This change also sync DPDK PF's behavior with kernel driver.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/i40e/i40e_pf.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_pf.c b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_pf.c
> index ddfc140..4e05dca 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_pf.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_pf.c
> @@ -1053,7 +1053,6 @@ i40e_pf_host_init(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>  		ret = i40e_pf_host_vf_reset(&pf->vfs[i], 0);
>  		if (ret != I40E_SUCCESS)
>  			goto fail;
> -		eth_random_addr(pf->vfs[i].mac_addr.addr_bytes);
>  	}
>  
>  	/* restore irq0 */
>