[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: revert open and release operations

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Wed Oct 18 22:47:29 CEST 2017


On 10/17/2017 11:27 PM, Shijith Thotton wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2017 at 09:14:36PM +0100, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> This reverts commit 6b9ed026a8704b9e5ee5da7997617ef7cc82e114.
>> This reverts commit 5f6ff30dc5075c49069d684bab229aef7ff0fdc3.
>> This reverts commit b58eedfc7dd57eef6d12e2c654a52c834f36084a.
>>
>> There were bug reports about terminated application may leave device in
>> undesired state:
>> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-November/049745.html
>> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-November/050932.html
>>
>> And a proposal to fix:
>> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2016-December/051844.html
>>
>> Later another proposal triggered the discussion:
>> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-May/066317.html
>>
>> Finally a fix patch pushed into v17.08:
>> Commit: b58eedfc7dd5 ("igb_uio: issue FLR during open and release of device file")
>>
>> Later a regression report sent related to the pushed patch:
>> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-September/075236.html
>>
>> And a fix for regression integrated into v17.11-rc1:
>> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-October/079166.html
>> Commit: 5f6ff30dc507 ("igb_uio: fix interrupt enablement after FLR in VM")
>> Commit: 6b9ed026a870 ("igb_uio: fix build with kernel <= 3.17")
>>
>> Even after the fix qede PMD reported to be broken:
>> http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-October/079359.html
>>
>> So this patch reverts original fix and related commits. The related
>> igb_uio code part turns back to v17.05 base.
>>
>> Cc: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
>> Cc: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com>
>> Cc: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thotton at caviumnetworks.com>
>> Cc: Gregory Etelson <gregory at weka.io>
>> Cc: Harish Patil <harish.patil at cavium.com>
>> Cc: George Prekas <george.prekas at epfl.ch>
>>
>> Fixes: b58eedfc7dd5 ("igb_uio: issue FLR during open and release of device file")
>> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
>> ---
>> It would be nice to solve this issue in LTS release, but being close to
>> the release and the error report without details makes it hard to work
>> more on this issue.
>>
>> Thanks everyone who spent effort for this, hopefully we can continue to
>> work on next release cycle.
>>
>> Jingjing, there is a i40e commit, was part of igb_uio fix patchset, is
>> it generic, or needs to be reverted with this patch?
>> Commit: 8cacf78469a7 ("net/i40e: fix VF initialization error")
> 
> Hi Ferruh,
> 
> Please consider this patch as part of revert.
> Commit: 9ed3f38770c6 ("net/liquidio: remove FLR request to PF driver")

Hi Shijith,

Sure, I will add this on next version of the patch.

> 
> Here I have removed extra FLR requests inside driver during init and close.
> They are required now, as we remove resets in igb_uio.
> 
> Thanks,
> Shijith
> 
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