[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v3 0/3] net/mlx5: use Netlink in VF mode

Nelio Laranjeiro nelio.laranjeiro at 6wind.com
Wed Mar 21 14:40:04 CET 2018


When MLX5 behaves in VF mode and the hypervisor have **trusted** this VF, to
be able to receive specific traffic some requests must be done to configure
the NIC.  There is no API currently available to do it though Verbs, but there
is in Linux side using Netlink.

The specific cases are:
- Enable/disable promiscuous mode.
- Enable/disable allmulti mode.
- Add/remove mac addresses.

Changes in v3:

Add missing room to add the MAC address in the Netlink message.

Changes in v2:

Embed Netlink socket communication inside the PMD.


Nelio Laranjeiro (3):
  net/mlx5: use Netlink to add/remove MAC addresses
  net/mlx5: use Netlink to enable promisc / all multicast mode
  net/mlx5: add a parameter for Netlink support in VF

 doc/guides/nics/mlx5.rst       |  11 +
 drivers/net/mlx5/Makefile      |   1 +
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c        |  29 ++
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.h        |  14 +
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c |  27 ++
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_mac.c    |  25 +-
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_nl.c     | 624 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_rxmode.c |   8 +
 8 files changed, 737 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_nl.c

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2.11.0



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