Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] Support standard SRIOV configuration for IB VFs

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On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:04:41PM +0300, Or Gerlitz wrote:

> OK, so rewinding a bit, the IB VF [1] identity is their 8 bytes port
> GUID, and as Jason noted the user/kernel API allows to deliver up to
> 32 bytes between user and kernel under the set_vf_mac flow
> (do_setvfinfo() in net/core/rtnetlink.c). Trying it out through
> **non-modified** ip tool and net/core/rtnetlink.c things just work -
> I can set eight bytes value to be the virtual port GUID :

Was I not perfectly clear? You have to use the 20 byte LLADDR format
here:

> # ip link set dev ib0 vf 1 mac aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff:11:22


>                 Port GUID: 0x2211ffeeddccbbaa

The byte order got screwed up someplace.

Jason
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