From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com>
Cc: <dev@dpdk.org>, Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [RFC 02/14] virtio: use eth_link_read/write (and bug fix)
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2017 09:01:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170717090122.18655a27@xeon-e3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <d1aab73b-bd85-5d9b-f8d3-cd38adda6ae8@solarflare.com>
On Sun, 16 Jul 2017 15:33:26 +0300
Andrew Rybchenko <arybchenko@solarflare.com> wrote:
> > + link.link_autoneg = ETH_LINK_SPEED_FIXED;
>
> As I understand link_autoneg is 1 bit field with boolean semantics. I.e. 0/false - no autoneg, 1/true - autoneg.
> It looks like it has wrong comment:
> uint16_t link_autoneg : 1; /**< ETH_LINK_SPEED_[AUTONEG/FIXED] */
>
> since
> #define ETH_LINK_SPEED_AUTONEG (0 << 0) /**< Autonegotiate (all speeds) */
> #define ETH_LINK_SPEED_FIXED (1 << 0) /**< Disable autoneg (fixed speed) */
>
> whereas
> #define ETH_LINK_FIXED 0 /**< No autonegotiation. */
> #define ETH_LINK_AUTONEG 1 /**< Autonegotiated. */
>
> In general this attempt to introduce bug is the result of wrong comment which is caused by very similar
> defines with opposite values.
Orignal observation was because some drivers (vmxnet3) were setting autoneg = fixed
and others were not. Turns out it makes no difference
since FIXED == 0, the old code and new code have same effect.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-17 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-14 18:30 [dpdk-dev] [RFC 00/14] link status API improvement and bugfixes Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-14 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 01/14] ethdev: add link status read/write functions Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-16 13:26 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2017-07-17 15:58 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-17 16:12 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2017-07-17 16:21 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-17 16:31 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2017-10-11 8:32 ` Yang, Qiming
2017-10-13 15:12 ` Stephen Hemminger
2018-01-05 14:24 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-05 20:15 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-14 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 02/14] virtio: use eth_link_read/write (and bug fix) Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-16 12:33 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2017-07-17 16:01 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2017-07-17 16:14 ` [dpdk-dev] ***Spam*** " Andrew Rybchenko
2017-07-17 16:28 ` [dpdk-dev] " Stephen Hemminger
2018-01-05 15:04 ` Thomas Monjalon
2017-07-14 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 03/14] bnxt: use rte_link_update Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-14 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 04/14] vmxnet3: use rte_eth_link_update Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-14 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 05/14] dpaa2: " Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-14 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 06/14] nfp: " Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-14 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 07/14] e1000: " Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-14 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 08/14] ixgbe: " Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-14 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 09/14] sfc: use new rte_eth_link helpers Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-16 13:48 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2017-07-17 16:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-17 16:19 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2017-07-14 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 10/14] i40e: use rte_eth_link_update (and bug fix) Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-14 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 11/14] liquidio: use _rte_eth_link_update Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-18 10:17 ` Shijith Thotton
2017-07-14 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 12/14] thunderx: " Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-14 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 13/14] szedata: " Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-16 12:46 ` Andrew Rybchenko
2017-07-14 18:30 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 14/14] enic: " Stephen Hemminger
2017-07-16 13:55 ` [dpdk-dev] [RFC 00/14] link status API improvement and bugfixes Andrew Rybchenko
2018-01-05 14:29 ` Thomas Monjalon
2018-01-05 20:18 ` Stephen Hemminger
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