From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Cc: davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, kys@microsoft.com,
haiyangz@microsoft.com, sthemmin@microsoft.com,
wei.liu@kernel.org, liuwe@microsoft.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
leon@kernel.org, andrew@lunn.ch, bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at,
rdunlap@infradead.org, shacharr@microsoft.com,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 net-next 1/2] hv_netvsc: Make netvsc/VF binding check both MAC and serial number
Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2021 08:53:48 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210419085348.6f5afd0b@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210416201159.25807-2-decui@microsoft.com>
On Fri, 16 Apr 2021 13:11:58 -0700
Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com> wrote:
> Currently the netvsc/VF binding logic only checks the PCI serial number.
>
> The upcoming Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) supports multiple
> net_device interfaces (each such interface is called a "vPort", and has
> its unique MAC address) which are backed by the same VF PCI device, so
> the binding logic should check both the MAC address and the PCI serial
> number.
>
> The change should not break any other existing VF drivers, because
> Hyper-V NIC SR-IOV implementation requires the netvsc network
> interface and the VF network interface have the same MAC address.
>
> Co-developed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> Co-developed-by: Shachar Raindel <shacharr@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shachar Raindel <shacharr@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Dexuan Cui <decui@microsoft.com>
Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-04-19 15:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-04-16 20:11 [PATCH v8 net-next 0/2] net: mana: Add a driver for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) Dexuan Cui
2021-04-16 20:11 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 1/2] hv_netvsc: Make netvsc/VF binding check both MAC and serial number Dexuan Cui
2021-04-19 15:53 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2021-04-22 0:18 ` Dexuan Cui
2021-04-16 20:11 ` [PATCH v8 net-next 2/2] net: mana: Add a driver for Microsoft Azure Network Adapter (MANA) Dexuan Cui
2021-04-19 15:54 ` Stephen Hemminger
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