It adds pre-setting i40e VF MAC addresses from DPDK PF host side, during host port initialization, by introduing a new port configuration element. It then can pre-set VF MAC addresses before any launching VFs, and the VF MAC addresses will not be random each time launching a VF. There should be no ABI broken, as ABI changes in 'struct rte_eth_conf' has already been announced in R2.2.
Helin Zhang (3): i40e: add setting VF MAC address in DPDK PF host i40evf: use ether interface for validating MAC address app/testpmd: set default MAC addresses for each VF app/test-pmd/testpmd.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++++ doc/guides/rel_notes/release_2_3.rst | 9 +++++++++ drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c | 21 +++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.h | 1 + drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev_vf.c | 14 +++++++------- drivers/net/i40e/i40e_pf.c | 2 ++ lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h | 10 ++++++++++ 7 files changed, 69 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) -- 2.5.0
