[dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ixgbe: wait longer for link after fiber MAC setup

[Zhang, Qi Z]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 12:36 AM
> To: Lu, Wenzhuo <wenzhuo.lu at intel.com>; Ananyev, Konstantin
> <konstantin.ananyev at intel.com>
> Cc: dev at dpdk.org; stable at dpdk.org; Matthew Smith <mgsmith at netgate.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ixgbe: wait longer for link after fiber MAC setup
> 
> After setting up the link on a fiber port, the maximum wait time for the link to
> come up is 500 ms in ixgbe_setup_mac_link_multispeed_fiber().
> On an x550 SFP+ port, this is often not sufficiently long for the link to come up.
> This can result in never being able to retrieve accurate link status for the port
> using rte_eth_link_get_nowait().
> 
> Increase the maximum wait time in ixgbe_setup_mac_link_multispeed_fiber()
> to 1 s.
> 
> Bugzilla ID: 69
> Fixes: f3430431abaf ("ixgbe/base: add SFP+ dual-speed support")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Smith <mgsmith at netgate.com>

Acked-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang at intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.

Thanks
Qi