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Currently, there is no way for a VF driver to specify that it wants to
change its device/primary unicast MAC address. This makes it
difficult/impossible for the PF driver to track the VF's device/primary
unicast MAC address, which is used for VM/VF reboot and displaying on
the host. Fix this by using 2 bits of a pad byte in the
virtchnl_ether_addr structure so the VF can specify what type of MAC
it's adding/deleting.
Below are the values that should be used by all VF drivers going
forward.
VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_LEGACY(0):
- The type should only ever be 0 for legacy AVF drivers (i.e.
drivers that don't support the new type bits). The PF drivers
will track VF's device/primary unicast MAC using with best
effort.
VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_PRIMARY(1):
- This type should only be used when the VF is changing their
device/primary unicast MAC. It should be used for both delete
and add cases related to the device/primary unicast MAC.
VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_EXTRA(2):
- This type should be used when the VF is adding and/or deleting
MAC addresses that are not the device/primary unicast MAC. For
example, extra unicast addresses and multicast addresses
assuming the PF supports "extra" addresses at all.
If a PF is parsing the type field of the virtchnl_ether_addr, then it
should use the VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_TYPE_MASK to mask the first two bits
of the type field since 0, 1, and 2 are the only valid values.
For i40evf PMD, when set default MAC address, use type
VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_PRIMARY as this case is changing device/primary
unicast MAC. For other cases, such as adding or deleting extra unicast
addresses and multicast addresses, use type VIRTCHNL_ETHER_ADDR_EXTRA.
Fixes: 6d13ea8e8e49 ("net: add rte prefix to ether structures")
Fixes: caccf8b318ca ("ethdev: return diagnostic when setting MAC address")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org
Signed-off-by: Robin Zhang <robinx.zhang@intel.com>
Tested-by: Yan Xia <yanx.xia@intel.com>
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