There is need to enable promiscuous mode enable on VF, pf host should also enable to support that.
v2: --fix typo in commit log. v3: --delete unnecessary commit log infomation --merge 2 patch into 1 --change patch headline name --add promiscuous enable support infomation into doc v4: --add information to release note Wei Zhao (2): net/ixgbe: promiscuous mode enable on VF net/ixgbe: add VF promiscuous mode support when PF as host doc/guides/nics/features/ixgbe_vf.ini | 1 + doc/guides/rel_notes/release_19_05.rst | 5 +++ drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 21 +++++++++ drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h | 1 + drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_pf.c | 79 ++++++++++++++++++++++++---------- 5 files changed, 85 insertions(+), 22 deletions(-) -- 2.7.5