[ovs-dev] [PATCH v5 2/2] netdev-dpdk: Add option to configure VF MAC address.

Kevin Traynor ktraynor at redhat.com
Mon Nov 9 16:49:02 UTC 2020


On 08/11/2020 20:09, Gaetan Rivet wrote:
> In some cloud topologies, using DPDK VF representors in guest requires
> configuring a VF before it is assigned to the guest.
> 
> A first basic option for such configuration is setting the VF MAC
> address. Add a key 'dpdk-vf-mac' to the 'options' column of the Interface
> table.
> 
> This option can be used as such:
> 
>    $ ovs-vsctl add-port br0 dpdk-rep0 -- set Interface dpdk-rep0 type=dpdk \
>       options:dpdk-vf-mac=00:11:22:33:44:55
> 
> Issue: 1981388
> Change-Id: Iaec052592fe0a66a4a2d8ed34ccafe105423d16a
> Signed-off-by: Gaetan Rivet <grive at u256.net>
> Suggested-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maximets at ovn.org>
> Acked-by: Eli Britstein <elibr at nvidia.com>
> ---

Thanks for adding to the documentation Gaetan.

Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <ktraynor at redhat.com>



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