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    ixgbe: Refactor MAC address configuration code · c9f53e63
    Alexander Duyck authored
    In the process of tracking down a memory leak when adding/removing FDB
    entries I had to go through the MAC address configuration code for ixgbe.
    In the process of doing so I found a number of issues that impacted
    readability and performance.  This change updates the code in general to
    clean it up so it becomes clear what each step is doing.  From what I can
    tell there a couple of bugs cleaned up in this code.
    
    First is the fact that the MAC addresses were being double counted for the
    PF.  As a result once entries up to 63 had been used you could no longer
    add additional filters.
    
    A simple test case for this:
      for i in `seq 0 96`
      do
        ip link add link ens8 name mv$i type macvlan
        ip link set dev mv$i up
      done
    
    Test script:
      ethregs -s 0:8.0 | grep -e "RAH" | grep 8000....$
    
    When things are working correctly RAL/H registers 1 - 97 will be consumed.
    In the failing case it will stop at 63 and prevent any further filters from
    being added.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexander Duyck <aduyck@mirantis.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarDarin Miller <darin.j.miller@intel.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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