Subject: Re: [PATCH] igbvf: avoid name clash between PF and VF

From: Stefan Assmann <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 12:57:01 +0200

On 30.06.2010 12:44, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 10:53 +0200, Stefan Assmann wrote:
>> From: Stefan Assmann <[email-masked]>
>>
>> It looks like the VFs get initialized before all the PFs are. Therefore
>> the udev mapping MAC <-> ethX (for PFs) gets screwed because the VFs
>> may grab the ethX interface names (reserved by udev) for the PFs.
>>
>> Example:
>> igb max_vfs=0
>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:20:F7:A5:9E
>> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:20:F7:A5:9F
>> eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:20:F7:A5:A0
>> eth3      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:20:F7:A5:A1
>> igb max_vfs=1
>> eth0      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:20:F7:A5:9E
>> eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 0A:CF:41:69:F7:A9
>> eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 3A:FE:20:4C:2A:3B
>> eth3      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr C6:C3:B1:56:C9:A4
>> eth3_rename Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:20:F7:A5:9F
>> eth4      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 6E:8A:8A:A3:5F:69
>> eth4_rename Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:20:F7:A5:A0
>> eth5_rename Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:13:20:F7:A5:A1
>>
>> In the example above VF 0A:CF:41:69:F7:A9 grabs eth1 but udev
>> has a rule that says eth1 should be assigned PF 00:13:20:F7:A5:9F
>> (eth3_rename) and waits for the VF to disappear to rename eth3_rename
>> to eth1. Unfortunately eth1 is not going to disappear.
>> This is not a udev bug since udev doesn't create persistent rules for
>> VFs as their MAC address changes every reboot.
> [...]
> 
> I think it is a bug in the udev rules: udev should rename the VFs even
> though their names won't be persistent.

In that case let's Cc udev people.

  Stefan
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