[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: support PCI domains

[Sinan Kaya]

On 7/22/2016 5:12 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 11:34:10 -0400
> Sinan Kaya <okaya at codeaurora.org> wrote:
> 
>> The current code is enumerating devices based on bus, device and function
>> pairs. This does not work well for architectures with multiple PCI
>> segments/domains. Multiple PCI devices will have the same BDF value but
>> different segment numbers (01:01:01.0 and 02:01:01.0) for instance.
>>
>> Adding segment numbers to device naming so that we can uniquely identify
>> devices.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Sinan Kaya <okaya at codeaurora.org>
> 
> I ran into this yes. There is a small risk of breaking some application that
> assumed something about names though.
> 
> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen at networkplumber.org>
> 

Thanks, hopefully the change is minor and can be contained until next release.

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Sinan Kaya
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