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[v1,0/2] Get E-Switch Manager vport ID

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Shun Hao Feb. 18, 2022, 7:18 a.m. UTC
  One of the E-Switch vports plays the special role - it is assigned as
"E-Switch manager" and has some special exclusive rights and duties - it
maintains all the representors, manages FDB domain flows, etc. By
default, the E-Switch vport index was supposed to be zero on standalone
NICs (regular ConnectX) and 0xFFFE SmartNIC (BlueField), but that was
not always correct - this index can be assigned with any value by
kernel/hypervisor.
To handle this and do not suggest any default values we should use DevX
API to query E-Switch manager vport ID directly from firmware, to make
sure we always use the correct value.


Shun Hao (2):
  common/mlx5: query E-Switch manager vport ID
  net/mlx5: new method to get E-Switch manager vport ID

 drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_devx_cmds.c | 12 ++++++++++++
 drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_devx_cmds.h |  2 ++
 drivers/common/mlx5/mlx5_prm.h       | 12 ++++++++++++
 drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_flow_dv.c      |  4 ++++
 4 files changed, 30 insertions(+)