[dpdk-stable] [PATCH] app/testpmd: revert setting MTU explicitly after configure

Ferruh Yigit ferruh.yigit at intel.com
Mon Nov 16 20:03:54 CET 2020


Setting MTU after each 'rte_eth_dev_configure()' prevents using
"--max-pkt-len=N" parameter and "port config all max-pkt-len #" command

This is breaking DTS scatter test case which is using
"--max-pkt-len=9000" testpmd parameter.

Reverting workaround to recover the DTS testcase.

Fixes: 1c21ee95cf52 ("app/testpmd: fix MTU after device configure")
Cc: stable at dpdk.org

Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
---
 app/test-pmd/testpmd.c | 19 -------------------
 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-)

diff --git a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c
index 48e9647fc7..33fc0fddf5 100644
--- a/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c
+++ b/app/test-pmd/testpmd.c
@@ -2537,8 +2537,6 @@ start_port(portid_t pid)
 		}
 
 		if (port->need_reconfig > 0) {
-			uint16_t mtu = RTE_ETHER_MTU;
-
 			port->need_reconfig = 0;
 
 			if (flow_isolate_all) {
@@ -2572,23 +2570,6 @@ start_port(portid_t pid)
 				port->need_reconfig = 1;
 				return -1;
 			}
-
-			/*
-			 * Workaround for rte_eth_dev_configure(), max_rx_pkt_len
-			 * set MTU wrong for the PMDs that have frame overhead
-			 * bigger than RTE_ETHER_HDR_LEN + RTE_ETHER_CRC_LEN.
-			 * For a PMD that has 26 bytes overhead, rte_eth_dev_configure()
-			 * can set MTU to max 1492, not to expected 1500 bytes.
-			 * Using rte_eth_dev_set_mtu() to be able to set MTU correctly,
-			 * default MTU value is 1500.
-			 */
-			diag = rte_eth_dev_get_mtu(pi, &mtu);
-			if (diag)
-				printf("Failed to get MTU for port %d\n", pi);
-			diag = rte_eth_dev_set_mtu(pi, mtu);
-			if (diag != 0 && diag != -ENOTSUP)
-				printf("Failed to set MTU to %u for port %d\n",
-						mtu, pi);
 		}
 		if (port->need_reconfig_queues > 0) {
 			port->need_reconfig_queues = 0;
-- 
2.26.2



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