Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/i40e: no more initial VF MAC address

2017-02-21 Thread Zhang, Qi Z
Hi Ferruh: Sorry to reply this late, I think I missed your email. > -Original Message- > From: Yigit, Ferruh > Sent: Saturday, January 21, 2017 1:39 AM > To: Zhang, Qi Z ; Wu, Jingjing ; > Zhang, Helin > Cc: dev@dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/

Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/i40e: no more initial VF MAC address

2017-01-20 Thread Ferruh Yigit
On 1/18/2017 1:45 AM, 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 startup/shutdown cycles. I believe below does not provide permanent MAC address, PF assign a random mac address to i

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/i40e: no more initial VF MAC address

2017-01-18 Thread Qi Zhang
During PF initialization, PF will generate an initial mac address for VFs, the purpose is to help VF keep a constant mac address between startup/shutdown cycles. Now this is not necessary, since we already provide an API to set VF mac address from PF side (rte_pmd_i40e_set_vf_addr). Application can