From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
To: Gavin Li <gavinl@nvidia.com>
Cc: matan@nvidia.com, viacheslavo@nvidia.com, orika@nvidia.com,
Dariusz Sosnowski <dsosnowski@nvidia.com>,
Bing Zhao <bingz@nvidia.com>, Suanming Mou <suanmingm@nvidia.com>,
dev@dpdk.org, rasland@nvidia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/2] net/mlx5: update how MAC address bit-fields are used
Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2025 16:54:25 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2010919.fIoEIV5pvu@thomas> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250825141322.974335-2-gavinl@nvidia.com>
25/08/2025 16:13, Gavin Li:
> Previously, mac_own was a bit-field indicating the MAC addresses owned by
> the PMD, specifically marking those added to VFs by the PMD and allowing
> them to be flushed during exit.
>
> With this commit, the bit-field now applies to all MAC addresses added by
> the PMD, including those for PF, VF, and SFs. The process for flushing MAC
> addresses added to VFs by the PMD remains unchanged.
To be clear, there is no behaviour change in this patch?
You should mention the goal of this patch (preparation of a fix for multicast).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-08-25 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-08-25 14:13 [PATCH V3 0/2] resolve flow creation issue for multicast MAC addresses Gavin Li
2025-08-25 14:13 ` [PATCH V3 1/2] net/mlx5: update how MAC address bit-fields are used Gavin Li
2025-08-25 14:54 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2025-08-25 14:13 ` [PATCH V3 2/2] net/mlx5: add support for flows targeting multicast MAC addresses Gavin Li
2025-08-25 14:52 ` Thomas Monjalon
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