Hi David, > From: Parav Pandit <pa...@mellanox.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 23, 2020 4:14 PM > > Currently ip link set dev <pfndev> vf <vf_num> <param> <value> has few below > limitations. > > 1. Command is limited to set VF parameters only. > It cannot set the default MAC address for the PCI PF. > > 2. It can be set only on system where PCI SR-IOV is supported. > In smartnic based system, eswitch of a NIC resides on a different embedded cpu > which has the VF and PF representors for the SR-IOV support on a host system > in > which this smartnic is plugged-in. > > 3. It cannot setup the function attributes of sub-function described in > detail in > comprehensive RFC [1] and [2]. > > This series covers the first small part to let user query and set MAC address > (hardware address) of a PCI PF/VF which is represented by devlink port. > > Patch summary: > Patch-1 Sync kernel header > Patch-2 Move devlink port code at start to reuse > Patch-3 Extends port dump command to query additional port function > attribute(s) > Patch-4 Enables user to set port function hardware address > > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/20200519092258.GF4655@nanopsycho/ > [2] https://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=158555928517777&w=2 >
Did you get a chance to review this short series? > Parav Pandit (4): > Update kernel headers > devlink: Move devlink port code at start to reuse > devlink: Support querying hardware address of port function > devlink: Support setting port function hardware address > > devlink/devlink.c | 378 ++++++++++++++++++++++++----------- > include/uapi/linux/devlink.h | 12 ++ > 2 files changed, 269 insertions(+), 121 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.25.4
