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    net: hns3: PF support get unicast MAC address space assigned by firmware · e435a6b5
    Guangbin Huang authored
    Currently, there are two ways for PF to set the unicast MAC address space
    size: specified by config parameters in firmware or set to default value.
    
    That's mean if the config parameters in firmware is zero, driver will
    divide the whole unicast MAC address space equally to 8 PFs. However, in
    this case, the unicast MAC address space will be wasted a lot when the
    hardware actually has less then 8 PFs. And in the other hand, if one PF has
    much more VFs than other PFs, then each function of this PF will has much
    less address space than other PFs.
    
    In order to ameliorate the above two situations, introduce the third way
    of unicast MAC address space assignment: firmware divides the whole unicast
    MAC address space equally to functions of all PFs, and calculates the space
    size of each PF according to its function number. PF queries the space size
    by the querying device specification command when in initialization
    process.
    
    The third way assignment is lower priority than specified by config
    parameters, only if the config parameters is zero can be used, and if
    firmware does not support the third way assignment, then driver still
    divides the whole unicast MAC address space equally to 8 PFs.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGuangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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