The associated device index is retrieved via Netlink request to
underlying Infiniband device driver. This network device index
is permanent throughout the lifetime of device. We do not
spawn the rte_eth_dev ports without associated network device, and
if network device is being unbound we get the remove notification
message and rte_eth_dev port is also detached. So, we may store
the ifindex in mlx5_device_spawn() routine at rte_eth_dev port
creation and initialization time and use the cached value further
instead of doing actual Netlink request.
Reported-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>
Acked-by: Yongseok Koh <yskoh@mellanox.com>
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