When a VF reaches the limit introduced in this commit [1], the driver
refuses to add any more MACs to the filter which changes the behavior
from previous releases and might break some NFVs which sometimes add
more VFs than the hardcoded limit of 18 and variable limit depending
on the number of VFs created on a given PF.   Disabling limit_mac_per_vf
would revert to previous behavior.

[1] commit cfb1d572c986 ("i40e: Add ensurance of MacVlan resources for every
trusted VF")

Signed-off-by: David Hill <dhill@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
index c66c8bbc3993..fb9eb4a80069 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40e/i40e_virtchnl_pf.c
@@ -4,6 +4,10 @@
 #include "i40e.h"
 #include "i40e_lan_hmc.h"
 #include "i40e_virtchnl_pf.h"
+#include <linux/moduleparam.h>
+
+bool __read_mostly limit_mac_per_vf = 1;
+module_param_named(limit_mac_per_vf, limit_mac_per_vf, bool, 0444);
 
 /*********************notification routines***********************/
 
@@ -2950,7 +2954,7 @@ static inline int i40e_check_vf_permission(struct i40e_vf *vf,
 	 * all VFs.
 	 */
 	} else {
-		if (new_count > max_macvlan) {
+		if (new_count > max_macvlan && limit_mac_per_vf) {
 			dev_err(&pf->pdev->dev,
 				"Cannot add more MAC addresses, trusted VF %d uses (%d/%d) MAC addresses\n",
 				vf->vf_id, new_count, max_macvlan);
-- 
2.50.1


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