From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mga03.intel.com (mga03.intel.com [134.134.136.65]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B5701B619; Thu, 2 Nov 2017 19:09:50 +0100 (CET) Received: from fmsmga004.fm.intel.com ([10.253.24.48]) by orsmga103.jf.intel.com with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384; 02 Nov 2017 11:09:43 -0700 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.44,335,1505804400"; d="scan'208";a="331231443" Received: from fyigit-mobl1.ger.corp.intel.com (HELO [10.241.226.36]) ([10.241.226.36]) by fmsmga004.fm.intel.com with ESMTP; 02 Nov 2017 11:09:38 -0700 To: "Mody, Rasesh" , Stephen Hemminger Cc: "Tan, Jianfeng" , Jingjing Wu , "Thotton, Shijith" , Gregory Etelson , "Patil, Harish" , Thomas Monjalon , "dev@dpdk.org" , "stable@dpdk.org" , George Prekas , Sergio Gonzalez Monroy References: <20171020165511.47899-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com> <44560a31-d8dc-b2e1-1589-95020fb654f3@intel.com> <5108b90a-5617-ea1a-ad41-c2eb83b8c1a1@intel.com> <02e895a8-e1fa-7159-f0e9-b8b8f883ae27@intel.com> <20171101151220.0f3f811b@shemminger-XPS-13-9360> <630caef1-99df-3d45-11ca-2cb6ef277dde@intel.com> From: Ferruh Yigit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2017 11:09:38 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [dpdk-stable] [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: remove device reset in open X-BeenThere: stable@dpdk.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: patches for DPDK stable branches List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2017 18:09:51 -0000 On 11/2/2017 10:34 AM, Mody, Rasesh wrote: >> From: Ferruh Yigit [mailto:ferruh.yigit@intel.com] >> Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2017 1:55 AM >> >> On 11/2/2017 1:03 AM, Mody, Rasesh wrote: >>>> From: Stephen Hemminger [mailto:stephen@networkplumber.org] >>>> Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2017 7:12 AM >>>> >>>> On Wed, 1 Nov 2017 06:58:53 +0000 >>>> "Mody, Rasesh" wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Jianfeng and Ferruh, >>>>> >>>>>> From: Ferruh Yigit [mailto:ferruh.yigit@intel.com] >>>>>> Sent: Thursday, October 26, 2017 5:50 PM >>>>>> >>>>>> On 10/26/2017 2:28 AM, Tan, Jianfeng wrote: >>>>>>> Hi Rasesh, >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 10/26/2017 7:43 AM, Mody, Rasesh wrote: >>>>>>>> Hi Ferruh, >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces@dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Ferruh >>>>>>>>> Yigit >>>>>>>>> Sent: Friday, October 20, 2017 9:58 AM >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> On 10/20/2017 9:55 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote: >>>>>>>>>> Remove device reset during application start, the reset for >>>>>>>>>> application exit still there. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Reset in open removed because of following comments: >>>>>>>>>> 1- Device reset not completed when VF driver loaded, which >>>>>>>>>> cause VF >>>>>> PMD >>>>>>>>>> initialization error. >>>>>>>>>> Adding delay can solve the issue but will increase driver load >> time. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> 2- Reset will be issues all devices unconditionally, not very >> efficient >>>>>>>>>> way. >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Fixes: b58eedfc7dd5 ("igb_uio: issue FLR during open and >>>>>>>>>> release of device file") >>>>>>>>>> Cc: stable@dpdk.org >>>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit >>>>>>>>> Hi Jingjing, Shijith, Gregory, Harish, >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Can you please test this on top of current master (which has >>>>>>>>> already Jingjin's >>>>>>>>> fix) ? >>>>>>>> The original FLR change during igb_uio open()/release() in >>>>>>>> DPDK17.08 also >>>>>> impacts BNX2X PMD and it exhibits the issues with bare metal testing. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> Now, we tested this change for BNX2X PMD using latest dpdk, which >>>>>>>> has >>>>>> this fix where FLR is invoked only in the release(). >>>>>> >>>>>> Good to hear this fixed the problem. >>>>> >>>>> Yes, it fixed the issue caused by pci reset during application start. >>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>>> However, we ran into an issue when trying to reload the testpmd >>>>>> application in quick succession. The pci reset, called during the >>>>>> igb_uio >>>>>> release() operation, is taking longer time and adapter is still >>>>>> doing the FLR when we relaunch the application. We see this >>>>>> behavior with bare metal testing. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> If we don't reset that device, it will continue working which is a >>>>>>> more serious issue IMO. >>>>>> >>>>>> +1 >>>>> >>>>> I think, it would better for the individual PMDs to take care of the >>>>> reset >>>> during the application exit. >>>> >>>> That will never be possible. Poll Mode Drivers are userspace entities >>>> and part of the application. If application crashes, there is no way >>>> for PMD to do cleanup, it must be handled by kernel. >>> >>> The pci reset in release is breaking the BNX2X PMD. Could we revert this >> reset and get it included with a solution that works for all in the next release? >> >> Hi Rasesh, >> >> I am not sure if there is more to do for solution for next releases, and related >> to your case, indeed I wasn't expecting a device reset will take more than >> five minutes... >> >> Would you be OK to control the reset via a compile time config option, which >> is enabled by default. So you will need to disable it to prevent the reset? > > Hi Ferruh, > > As I understand, we will have a compile time config option, enabled by default, to guard the pci_reset_function() in the igbuio_pci_release(). We will disable this config option to prevent the reset when using BNX2X. Yep, this is the idea. > The controlled reset should work for us. If there is no objection, I can send a patch for this. > > Thanks! > -Rasesh >