28/09/2021 10:50, Rongwei Liu: > In socket direct mode, it's possible to bind any two (maybe four > in future) PCIe devices with IDs like xxxx:xx:xx.x and > yyyy:yy:yy.y. Bonding member interfaces are unnecessary to have > the same PCIe domain/bus/device ID anymore, > > Kernel driver uses "system_image_guid" to identify if devices can > be bound together or not. Sysfs "phys_switch_id" is used to get > "system_image_guid" of each network interface. > > OFED 5.4+ is required to support "phys_switch_id". > Centos 8.1 needs to enable switch_dev mode first. > > Signed-off-by: Rongwei Liu <rongw...@nvidia.com> > Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viachesl...@nvidia.com> > --- > drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------- > 1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
Does it deserve a line in the release notes?
