Hi, > -----Original Message----- > From: Rongwei Liu <rongw...@nvidia.com> > Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 11:49 AM > To: Matan Azrad <ma...@nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko > <viachesl...@nvidia.com>; Ori Kam <or...@nvidia.com>; NBU-Contact- > Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> > Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh <rasl...@nvidia.com> > Subject: [PATCH v5 2/2] net/mlx5: support socket direct mode bonding > > 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". > > Signed-off-by: Rongwei Liu <rongw...@nvidia.com> > Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viachesl...@nvidia.com> > --- > doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst | 4 +++ > doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst | 4 +++ > drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++------ > 3 files changed, 42 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst index > 47709d93b3..45f44c97d7 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst > @@ -468,6 +468,10 @@ Limitations > > - TXQ affinity subjects to HW hash once enabled. > > +- Bonding under socket direct mode > + > + - Needs OFED 5.4+. > + > Statistics > ---------- > > diff --git a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst > b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst > index 1ccac87b73..2f46b27709 100644 > --- a/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst > +++ b/doc/guides/rel_notes/release_21_11.rst > @@ -217,6 +217,10 @@ New Features > * Added PDCP short MAC-I support. > * Added raw vector datapath API support. > > +* **Updated Mellanox mlx5 driver.** > + > + * Added socket direct mode bonding support. This part needs to be in the previously added update in the release notes. Will fix during integration,
Kindest regards Raslan Darawsheh
