[dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/liquidio fixes unable to update linfovar

[Ferruh Yigit]

On 5/23/2018 1:16 AM, Yao chuhong wrote:
> hi, Ferruh & Shijith
> 
> Sorry, I can't reply the email in time, because it was late at night.

Hi Chuhong,

I was aware it is late for you so I updated the commit log for you.

> I read your email, Will use commit log suggested by Shijith and the patch
> Applied to dpdk-next-net/master.
> That means my contribution to this bug has been done, right?

Yes, fix included into rc5. Thank you for contribution.

> Thanks again for your help. Thanks!
> 
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> ------------------ Original ------------------
> *From: * "Ferruh Yigit"<ferruh.yigit at intel.com>;
> *Date: * Wed, May 23, 2018 05:12 AM
> *To: * "chuhong yao"<ych at panath.cn>; "shijith.thotton"<shijith.thotton at cavium.com>;
> *Cc: * "dev"<dev at dpdk.org>;
> *Subject: * Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2] net/liquidio fixes unable to update linfovar
>  
> On 5/22/2018 10:07 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> On 5/22/2018 3:33 PM, chuhong yao wrote:
>>> When I was using VPP +dpdk-18.02+liqudio CN23xx,
>>> I encountered such a bug.
>>> When VPP called dpdk_device_start to initialize DPDK liqudio drive,
>>> I found that initialization failed.
>>> The reason for the failure is that VF MTU > PF MTU,
>>> but PF MTU has been modified to 9600 (> VF MTU).
>>> Finally, I am location that DPDK liqudio drive
>>> cannot get the correct PF driver to liqudio network card.
>>> It is due to the fact that when VPP calls dpdk_device_start to
>>> initialize DPDK liqudio drive,this time,
>>> lio_dev->linfo.Link var already exists in the old value, not empty.
>>> Cause lio_dev->linfo.Link. Link_status64 != 0
>>> statement is set up,
>>> and the link info is stopped directly to liqudio card,
>>> resulting in no get accurate pf mtu.
>>> I did a test model to reproduce the bug,
>>> which is to add rte_eth_dev_set_mtu(portid, vf_mtu)
>>> to the rte_eth_dev_start function when using
>>> dpdk-18.02+liqudio CN23xx+l2fwd.
>>> You need to make sure that 1500 < vf_mtu < pf_mtu will be available.
>>> At this time, you will have
>>> net_liovf[04:00.3]ERROR: lio_dev_mtu_set()
>>> VF MTU should be >= 68 and <= 1500. Such a mistake.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: chuhong yao <ych at panath.cn>
>>
>> Will use commit log suggested by maintainer [1]. Thanks Shijith!
>>
>>
>> [1]
>>     net/liquidio: fix link state fetching during device start
>>
>>     Clear link state information during device start for fetching new state
>>     before function completion.
>>
>>     Fixes: 605164c8e79d ("net/liquidio: add API to validate VF MTU")
>>     Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>>
>>     Signed-off-by: Chuhong Yao <ych at panath.cn>
>>     Acked-by: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thotton at caviumnetworks.com>
> 
> Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.
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