Hi,
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Slava Ovsiienko <viachesl...@nvidia.com>
> Sent: Friday, June 11, 2021 6:37 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Raslan Darawsheh <rasl...@nvidia.com>; Matan Azrad
> <ma...@nvidia.com>; sta...@dpdk.org
> Subject: [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix switchdev mode recognition
>
> The new kernels might add the switch_id attribute to the Netlink replies and
> this caused the wrong recognition of the E-Switch presence. The single uplink
> device was erroneously recognized as master and it caused the extending
> match for source vport index on all installed flows, including the default
> ones,
> and adding extra hops in the steering engine, that affected the maximal
> throughput packet rate.
>
> The extra check for the new device name format (it supposes the new
> kernel) and the device is only one is added. If this check succeeds the E-
> Switch presence is considered as wrongly detected and overridden.
>
> Fixes: 30a86157f6d5 ("net/mlx5: support PF representor")
> Cc: sta...@dpdk.org
>
> Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viachesl...@nvidia.com>
Patch applied to next-net-mlx,
Kindest regards,
Raslan Darawsheh
