On 2/21/2017 10:45 PM, Qi Zhang wrote: > During PF initialization, PF will generate an initial mac address > for VFs, the purpose is to help VF keep a constant mac address between > its startup/shutdown cycles. Now this is not necessary, since we already > provide an API to set VF's MAC address from PF side > (rte_pmd_i40e_set_vf_mac_addr). > Application can use this API to lock down VF's mac address.(of course this > should happen before VF init) > While without this patch, we still can use rte_pmd_i40e_set_vf_mac_addr > to overwrite the random one, but this patch align DPDK's default behavior > with Kernel PF driver's, and this help to give an identical experience > when work with kernel VF driver. > > Signed-off-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zh...@intel.com>
Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
