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 <viachesl...@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com>
