[dpdk-dev] vf init issue with patch igb_uio: issue FLR during open and release of device file

Patil, Harish Harish.Patil at cavium.com
Wed Sep 13 21:44:35 CEST 2017



-----Original Message-----
From: dev <dev-bounces at dpdk.org> on behalf of Ferruh Yigit
<ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
Date: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 at 10:06 AM
To: "Hu, Xuekun" <xuekun.hu at intel.com>, "Thotton, Shijith"
<Shijith.Thotton at cavium.com>, "Yang, Qiming" <qiming.yang at intel.com>,
Gregory Etelson <gregory at weka.io>
Cc: "dev at dpdk.org" <dev at dpdk.org>, "Tan, Jianfeng" <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] vf init issue with patch igb_uio: issue FLR during
open and release of device file

>On 9/13/2017 3:25 PM, Hu, Xuekun wrote:
>> I met the same issue too, only with i40e 2.1.26 PF kernel driver.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Ferruh Yigit
>> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2017 7:04 PM
>> To: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thotton at caviumnetworks.com>; Yang, Qiming
>><qiming.yang at intel.com>; Gregory Etelson <gregory at weka.io>
>> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; Tan, Jianfeng <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
>> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] vf init issue with patch igb_uio: issue FLR
>>during open and release of device file
>> 
>> On 9/13/2017 11:48 AM, Shijith Thotton wrote:
>>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2017 at 07:51:30AM +0000, Yang, Qiming wrote:
>>>>    Hi, Shijith
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>    VF init error will happen after apply your patch, error log as
>>>>below. If
>>>>    revert your commit, all things work well. And this issue is not
>>>>only occur
>>>>    in i40 VF but also ixgbe.
>
>Hi Qiming,
>
>I can reproduce the issue for the case:
>
>1- i40e 2.1.26 PF kernel driver (NOT reproduced with 1.6.27-k)
>2- DPDK app run on host, so both PF and VF are in host. Linux driver for
>PF and DPDK for VF. (When VF used in a VM, Linux PF on host and DPDK VF
>on guest, this works fine)
>
>And I confirm the function igbuio_pci_open() added with below patch is
>causing it.
>
>igbuio_pci_open() does:
>    pci_reset_function(dev);
>    pci_set_master(dev);
>
>Don't know yet root cause of the error, will dig more.
>
>>>>
>>>>    Could you help to check it soon?
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>    [root at localhost app]# ./testpmd -c 7 -n 4 -- -i
>>>>
>>>>    EAL: Detected 10 lcore(s)
>>>>
>>>>    EAL: No free hugepages reported in hugepages-1048576kB
>>>>
>>>>    EAL: Probing VFIO support...
>>>>
>>>>    EAL: WARNING: cpu flags constant_tsc=yes nonstop_tsc=no -> using
>>>>    unreliable clock cycles !
>>>>
>>>>    EAL: PCI device 0000:00:03.0 on NUMA socket -1
>>>>
>>>>    EAL:   Invalid NUMA socket, default to 0
>>>>
>>>>    EAL:   probe driver: 8086:154c net_i40e_vf
>>>>
>>>>    i40evf_init_vf(): init_adminq failed: -53
>>>>
>>>>    i40evf_dev_init(): Init vf failed
>>>>
>>>>    EAL: Requested device 0000:00:03.0 cannot be used
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>    commit b58eedfc7dd57eef6d12e2c654a52c834f36084a
>>>>    Author: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thotton at caviumnetworks.com>
>>>>    Date: Fri Jul 7 16:43:51 2017 +0530
>>>>
>>>>    igb_uio: issue FLR during open and release of device file
>>>>
>>>>    Set UIO info device file operations open and release. Call pci
>>>>reset
>>>>    function inside open and release to clear device state at start
>>>>and end.
>>>>    Copied this behaviour from vfio_pci kernel module code. With this
>>>>patch,
>>>>    it is not mandatory to issue FLR by PMD's during init and close.
>>>>
>>>>    Bus master enable and disable are added in open and release
>>>>respectively
>>>>    to take care of device DMA.
>>>>
>>>>    Signed-off-by: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thotton at caviumnetworks.com>
>>>>    Reviewed-by: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
>>>>    Acked-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
>>>>    Acked-by: Gregory Etelson <gregory at weka.io>
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>>
>>>>    Best Regard,
>>>>
>>>>    Yang Qiming
>>>>
>>>>     
>>>
>>> Hi Yang Qiming,
>>>
>>> We didn't face this issue while preparing patch. I think, Gregory
>>> tested it for Intel NICs. Adding more people to the loop for help.
>>>
>> 
>> I will try to reproduce the issue.
>> 
>>> Shijith

[Harish] We are seeing similar issue with the bringup of qede VF devices
due to this patch.
Could we revert this and leave it to individual PMDs to manage it?
>>



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