Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] i40e: add VEB switching support for i40e

["Wu, Jingjing" <jingjing.wu@intel.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Zhe Tao
> Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 2:50 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] i40e: add VEB switching support for i40e
> 
> VEB switching feature for i40e is used to enable the switching between the
>  VSIs connect to the virtual bridge. The old implementation is setting the
>  virtual bridge mode as VEPA which is port aggregation. Enable the switching
>  ability by setting the loop back mode for the specific VSIs which connect to PF
>  or VFs.

As I know, there is a known issue about the veb switch on older NVM version.
I would be better to add a NVM version verification, if version > xx.xx, then enable it?

Thanks
Jingjing

> Signed-off-by: Zhe Tao <zhe.tao@intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c | 48 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 40 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>