Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] net/mlx5: support socket direct mode bonding

[Slava Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 30, 2021 0:58
> To: Matan Azrad <matan@nvidia.com>; Slava Ovsiienko
> <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>; Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>
> Cc: Ori Kam <orika@nvidia.com>; dev@dpdk.org; Raslan Darawsheh
> <rasland@nvidia.com>
> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/2] net/mlx5: support socket direct
> mode bonding
> 
> 28/09/2021 10:50, Rongwei Liu:
> > In socket direct mode, it's possible to bind any two (maybe four in
> > future) PCIe devices with IDs like xxxx:xx:xx.x and yyyy:yy:yy.y.
> > Bonding member interfaces are unnecessary to have the same PCIe
> > domain/bus/device ID anymore,
> >
> > Kernel driver uses "system_image_guid" to identify if devices can be
> > bound together or not. Sysfs "phys_switch_id" is used to get
> > "system_image_guid" of each network interface.
> >
> > OFED 5.4+ is required to support "phys_switch_id".
> > Centos 8.1 needs to enable switch_dev mode first.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Rongwei Liu <rongweil@nvidia.com>
> > Acked-by: Viacheslav Ovsiienko <viacheslavo@nvidia.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/net/mlx5/linux/mlx5_os.c | 43
> > +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
> >  1 file changed, 34 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
> 
> Does it deserve a line in the release notes?
Not sure, it is minor update.