06/12/2024 15:26, Viacheslav Ovsiienko: > The mlx5 PMD provides a specific workaround for the VMware ESXi > hypervisor, enabling on-demand routing configuration to virtual > machines. This workaround activates when the device type is > a Virtual Function and either an ESXi hypervisor is detected > or the hypervisor type is unknown. > > For non-x86 architectures the function rte_hypervisor_get() > consistently returns an unknown type, which triggers the workaround > automatically without any actual needs. If there are VLAN support > requirements, this can lead to failures in inserting default control > flows. > > Do not trigger the workaround for unknown hypervisor type > in non-x86 environments.
It would be a lot better to fix rte_hypervisor_get(). I suggest starting with the read of /sys/class/dmi/id/
