[PATCH] net/iavf: remove error logs for vlan offloading

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Feb 06, 2024 at 10:56:07AM +0100, David Marchand wrote:
> This was reported by RH QE.
> 
> When a vlan is enforced on a VF via an administrative configuration on
> the PF side, the net/iavf driver logs two error messages.
> Those error messages have no consequence on the rest of the port
> initialisation and packet processing works fine.
> 
> [root at toto ~] # ip l set enp94s0 vf 0 vlan 2
> [root at toto ~] # dpdk-testpmd -a 0000:5e:02.0 -- -i
> ...
> Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
> iavf_dev_init_vlan(): Failed to update vlan offload
> iavf_dev_configure(): configure VLAN failed: -95
> iavf_set_rx_function(): request RXDID[1] in Queue[0] is legacy, set
> 	rx_pkt_burst as legacy for all queues
> 
> The first change is to remove the error log in iavf_dev_init_vlan().
> This log is unneeded since all error path are covered by a dedicated log
> message already.
> 
> Then, in iavf_dev_init_vlan(), requesting all possible VLAN offloading
> must not trigger an ERROR level log message. This is simply confusing,
> as the application may not have requested such vlan offloading.
> The reason why the driver requests all offloading is unclear so keep it
> as is. Instead, rephrase the log message and lower its level to INFO.
> 
> Fixes: 1c301e8c3cff ("net/iavf: support new VLAN capabilities")
> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <david.marchand at redhat.com>

Acked-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson at intel.com>

One small suggestion inline below.
> ---
>  drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c | 6 ++----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c
> index 1fb876e827..fc92cdf146 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c
> @@ -631,7 +631,7 @@ iavf_dev_init_vlan(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>  					RTE_ETH_VLAN_FILTER_MASK |
>  					RTE_ETH_VLAN_EXTEND_MASK);
>  	if (err) {
> -		PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "Failed to update vlan offload");
> +		PMD_DRV_LOG(INFO, "There is no support or the PF refused VLAN offloading");

Minor nit, the phrase "no support" seems ambiguous on first reading, since
it's not completely clear that the no support refers to vlan offloading.

How about:
  "VLAN offloading is not supported, or offloading was refused by the PF"

>  		return err;
>  	}
>  
> @@ -707,9 +707,7 @@ iavf_dev_configure(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
>  		vf->max_rss_qregion = IAVF_MAX_NUM_QUEUES_DFLT;
>  	}
>  
> -	ret = iavf_dev_init_vlan(dev);
> -	if (ret)
> -		PMD_DRV_LOG(ERR, "configure VLAN failed: %d", ret);
> +	iavf_dev_init_vlan(dev);
>  
>  	if (vf->vf_res->vf_cap_flags & VIRTCHNL_VF_OFFLOAD_RSS_PF) {
>  		if (iavf_init_rss(ad) != 0) {
> -- 
> 2.43.0
>