On Sun, 3 Mar 2019 07:14:07 +0000 Dekel Peled <dek...@mellanox.com> wrote:
> In current kernel implementation, the physical port name for representors is > a numeric string (i.e. '0', '1', etc.). > > > > Kernel patch [1] implements an updated scheme for naming of representors > ports. > > The new scheme gives a unique name for each port using the PF ID and the VF > ID. > > Uplink representors are named 'p0', 'p1', etc. > > VF representors are named 'pf0vf0', 'pf0vf1', 'pf1vf0', 'pf1vf1', etc. Depending on kernel to use any particular naming policy is going to be problematic. Users will want to run on older kernels, and many distributions rename interfaces through udev or other mechanism.
