[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v4 04/12] net/failsafe: add fail-safe PMD

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Thu, 1 Jun 2017 16:01:37 +0200
Gaëtan Rivet <gaetan.rivet at 6wind.com> wrote:

> What is necessary is a common piece of info (it can be MAC address, a
> class Id, anything else) that allows a script to detect that the right
> device has been plugged in. As long as the NFV server allows determinism
> here, the user will be able to use its VF.

There is a serial number property (GUID) on vmbus that is what Windows uses
to associate VF and SF device. It maybe visible over sysfs.

But it make senses to put that kind of system dependent matching rule in
some other place (DPDK bus logic? or external daemon).