Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/i40e: no more initial VF MAC address

2017-03-05 Thread Ferruh Yigit
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 fro

[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/i40e: no more initial VF MAC address

2017-02-21 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 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). Appli