> -----Original Message----- > From: David Marchand <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2026 8:39 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Dariusz Sosnowski > <[email protected]>; Slava Ovsiienko <[email protected]>; Bing > Zhao <[email protected]>; Ori Kam <[email protected]>; Suanming Mou > <[email protected]>; Matan Azrad <[email protected]> > Subject: [PATCH v9 5/5] net/mlx5: accept more unicast MAC addresses > > Starting firmware version 22.49.1014, the number of mac addresses per VF is > not capped to 128 anymore. > > The value can be increased via devlink: > $ devlink dev param set pci/0000:3b:00.2 name max_macs value 4096 \ > cmode driverinit > $ devlink dev reload pci/0000:3b:00.2 > > On the DPDK side, we must retrieve the maximum number of unicast and > multicast addresses supported with a query to the firmware. > > Then, dynamically allocate the mac addresses arrays and report the limit > instead of the previous hardcoded value. > > Signed-off-by: David Marchand <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Dariusz Sosnowski <[email protected]>
