The Below patches needs to be backported to OvS 2.9 for enabling NIC partitioning on X710 cards 1. https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/e10ca8b921020383ea6cd50804e152ff90b2aa42 2. http://mails.dpdk.org/archives/stable/2017-December/003856.html
For NFV QA, this bug is against the component openvswitch, it is not the the RFE about nic-partitioning and nfv-dfg need to ensure that the new version of ovs-2.9 doesn't introduce any regression.
Verified on a newer release of openvswitch(openvswitch-2.9.0-93.el7fdn), no regression was introduced to NFV CI.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2019:0552