[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/mlx5: fix switch port id when representor in bonding

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 11/4/2020 6:04 AM, Bill Zhou wrote:
> From: Bill Zhou <dongzhou at nvidia.com>
> 
> In the bonding configurations the port switch id for representors
> was composed of pf index in bonding as the 1 msb and the representor's
> index as the remaining 15 lsbs. The special corner case for the host
> PF representor on BF setups with representor id 0xFFFF was missed as well.
> 
> The new switch port id consists of 4 msbs for the pf bonding index and
> the remaining 12 lsbs for the representor index. The switch port id ranges
> for each type of representors are as follows:
> 
> Uplink representor(AKA master): 0xFFFF
> Host PF representor: 0x<pf_bond>FFF
> VF representor: 0x<pf_bond>[0-FFE]
> 
> Fixes: bee57a0a3565 ("net/mlx5: update switch port id in bonding configuration")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bill Zhou <dongzhou at nvidia.com>
> Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo at nvidia.com>

Sign off tag is updated as following in the next-net, to keep consistent to 
previously used name:
  Signed-off-by: Dong Zhou <dongzhou at nvidia.com>