Re: [PATCH v6 0/3] Remove limitations coming from legacy VMDq
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Date: 2026-08-24 17:02:06
On Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:42:04 +0200 David Marchand [off-list ref] wrote:
Since the commit 88ac4396ad29 ("ethdev: add VMDq support"),
VMDq has been imposing a maximum number of mac addresses in the
mac_addr_add/del API.
Nowadays, new Intel drivers do not support the feature and few other
drivers implement this feature.
This series enforces that the driver announces VMDq pools before
using VMDq related features, then remove the limit of number of
mac addresses for others.
Next step could be to remove the VMDq pool notion from the generic API.
However I have some concern about this, as changing the quite stable
mac_addr_add/del API now seems a lot of noise for not much benefit.Applied to next-net