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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@6wind.com>
To: "Wu, Jingjing" <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] ixgbevf does not recover from pf reset
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2016 09:54:25 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALwxeUsC=tW5z+hLtiyYyu4NJDPoAURXqsVu5=qHxxLmTLvKzA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9BB6961774997848B5B42BEC655768F8D8B6D5@SHSMSX104.ccr.corp.intel.com>

Hello,

On Fri, Jan 22, 2016 at 3:05 AM, Wu, Jingjing <jingjing.wu@intel.com> wrote:
> Hi, David
>
> We also noticed this issue before. And we are planning to fix this issue.
> And the patch for i40e is ready:
> http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/9832/
> http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/9833/
>
> The solution is that: PF reset interrupt will be captured by DPDK VF, then DPDK
> Call the application's callback function to reset the VF device. For i40e device,
> application need to detach and re-attach the device.
>
> For ixgbe, I think the solution would be similar.

Ok, so to handle a problem in hardware, the application must implement
a new mechanism to recover the port ?
I don't find this solution really elegant ...

This should be handled by the pmd itself.


Regards,
-- 
David Marchand

  reply	other threads:[~2016-01-22  8:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-11 14:46 David Marchand
2016-01-22  2:05 ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-01-22  8:54   ` David Marchand [this message]
2016-01-25  1:58     ` Wu, Jingjing
2016-01-25 15:05       ` David Marchand

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