From: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
To: "Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com>, dev@dpdk.org
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@xilinx.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] ethdev: document default and non-default MAC address
Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2022 20:49:43 +0300
Message-ID: <4c77e589-396b-a358-3d5f-4764de45a26d@oktetlabs.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220601063949.43202-3-humin29@huawei.com>
On 6/1/22 09:39, Min Hu (Connor) wrote:
> From: Huisong Li <lihuisong@huawei.com>
>
> The rte_eth_dev_data::mac_addrs is a MAC address array. The index zero of
> this array is as the default address index, and other indexes can't be the
> same as the address corresponding to index 0. If we break it, may cause
> following problems:
> 1) waste of MAC address spaces.
> 2) a fake MAC address in the MAC list, isn't in hardware MAC entries.
> 3) a MAC address is assigned to diffent pool.
>
> Signed-off-by: Huisong Li <lihuisong@huawei.com>
> Signed-off-by: Min Hu <humin29@huawei.com>
> ---
> lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.h | 7 ++++++-
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.h b/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.h
> index 69d9dc21d8..d49e9138c6 100644
> --- a/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.h
> +++ b/lib/ethdev/ethdev_driver.h
> @@ -115,7 +115,12 @@ struct rte_eth_dev_data {
>
> uint64_t rx_mbuf_alloc_failed; /**< Rx ring mbuf allocation failures */
>
> - /** Device Ethernet link address. @see rte_eth_dev_release_port() */
> + /**
> + * Device Ethernet link address. The index zero of the array is as the
> + * index of the default address, and other indexes can't be the same
> + * as the address corresponding to index 0.
> + * @see rte_eth_dev_release_port()
> + */
> struct rte_ether_addr *mac_addrs;
> /** Bitmap associating MAC addresses to pools */
> uint64_t mac_pool_sel[RTE_ETH_NUM_RECEIVE_MAC_ADDR];
The patch itself does not make sense since it documents what happens
in the first patch of the series. So, it should be a part of the first
patch.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-06-01 17:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-22 3:36 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ethdev: fix one MAC address occupies two index in mac addrs Min Hu (Connor)
2021-09-22 6:39 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-09-22 7:43 ` Huisong Li
2021-09-22 8:02 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2021-09-22 9:48 ` Huisong Li
2021-10-05 19:21 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-08 7:02 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-10-08 10:04 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-09 9:53 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-10-11 9:02 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-11 9:28 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] " Min Hu (Connor)
2021-10-11 10:35 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-12 2:58 ` lihuisong (C)
2021-10-12 7:14 ` Thomas Monjalon
2021-10-15 2:00 ` lihuisong (C)
2021-10-19 17:45 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-20 6:49 ` lihuisong (C)
2021-10-20 7:41 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-20 10:15 ` Kevin Traynor
2021-10-20 16:32 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-21 2:05 ` lihuisong (C)
2021-10-21 8:30 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-10-22 2:04 ` lihuisong (C)
2021-10-26 10:21 ` Ferruh Yigit
2021-11-08 6:55 ` lihuisong (C)
2022-04-25 6:42 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2022-05-14 2:00 ` [PATCH V3 0/2] ethdev: fix MAC addrs list Min Hu (Connor)
2022-05-14 2:00 ` [PATCH V3 1/2] ethdev: fix one address occupies two indexes in MAC addrs Min Hu (Connor)
2022-05-14 2:00 ` [PATCH V3 2/2] ethdev: document default and non-default MAC address Min Hu (Connor)
2022-05-31 15:22 ` [PATCH V3 0/2] ethdev: fix MAC addrs list Andrew Rybchenko
2022-06-01 6:43 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2022-06-01 6:39 ` [PATCH v4 " Min Hu (Connor)
2022-06-01 6:39 ` [PATCH v4 1/2] ethdev: fix one address occupies two indexes in MAC addrs Min Hu (Connor)
2022-06-01 17:49 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2022-06-02 3:16 ` lihuisong (C)
2022-06-02 13:54 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2022-06-11 9:04 ` lihuisong (C)
2022-06-01 6:39 ` [PATCH v4 2/2] ethdev: document default and non-default MAC address Min Hu (Connor)
2022-06-01 17:49 ` Andrew Rybchenko [this message]
2022-06-01 17:49 ` [PATCH v4 0/2] ethdev: fix MAC addrs list Andrew Rybchenko
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