From: Mark Bloch <markb@mellanox.com>
To: "Benoit Ganne (bganne)" <bganne@cisco.com>,
Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
"users@dpdk.org" <users@dpdk.org>,
"viacheslavo@mellanox.com" <viacheslavo@mellanox.com>,
"matan@mellanox.com" <matan@mellanox.com>,
"rasland@mellanox.com" <rasland@mellanox.com>,
"saeedm@mellanox.com" <saeedm@mellanox.com>,
"eranbe@mellanox.com" <eranbe@mellanox.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-users] CX4-Lx VF link status in Azure
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2020 13:09:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4c84d14c-e12f-298b-474b-0c1da812a6d2@mellanox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CH2PR11MB4327F04EE3A646B7275F7D62C1CF0@CH2PR11MB4327.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>
On 3/26/2020 12:00, Benoit Ganne (bganne) wrote:
>> Pasting back this important info:
>> "
>> Note that ethtool and '/sys/class/net/<iface>/speed' also fails
>> to report the link speed (but not the link status).
>> "
>>
>> 26/03/2020 19:27, Benoit Ganne (bganne):
>>> Yes everything is initialized correctly. The netdev itself is configured
>> and usable from Linux (ping etc.). Just removing the over-strict check in
>> mlx5 PMD is enough for everything to work fine:
>> https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgerrit.fd.io%2Fr%2Fc%2Fvpp%2F%2B%2F26152%2F1%2Fbuild%2Fexternal%2Fpatches%2Fdpdk_20.02%2F0&data=02%7C01%7Cmarkb%40mellanox.com%7Ccf7438ae7d924c03b03308d7d1b7fd83%7Ca652971c7d2e4d9ba6a4d149256f461b%7C0%7C0%7C637208460478847341&sdata=fV4wrAvzmHNM88mfCr6lxFXG0ANVOP0rBjfovZii84c%3D&reserved=0
>> 002-mlx5-azure-workaround.patch
>>> The link speed is unknown but this is not issue, and link state and
>> other link info are correctly reported.
>>> Thomas, any input regarding this behavior in mlx5 PMD?
>>
>> I am not aware about the lack of link speed info.
>> It is probably not specific to ConnectX-4 Lx.
>> I guess it happens only with Hyper-V?
Should be fixed by those 3 commits (last 1 one is just cosmetic):
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=dc392fc56f39a00a46d6db2d150571ccafe99734
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=c268ca6087f553bfc0e16ffec412b983ffe32fd4
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net-next.git/commit/?id=2f5438ca0ee01a1b3a9c37e3f33d47c8122afe74
Mark
>
> For me there are 2 separate issues:
> 1) Linux kernel driver does not report link speed in Azure for CX4-Lx in Ubuntu 18.04
> 2) mlx5 PMD enforce that both link speed is defined and link is up to update interface state
>
> If (1) is fixed, (2) should work, but to me (2) is too strict for no good reason: we do not really care about reported link speed, esp in a virtual environment it usually does not mean much, but we do care about link state.
>
> ben
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-03-26 21:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-03-25 19:07 Benoit Ganne (bganne)
2020-03-25 21:32 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-03-25 22:48 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-03-26 14:26 ` Benoit Ganne (bganne)
2020-03-26 17:57 ` Stephen Hemminger
2020-03-26 18:27 ` Benoit Ganne (bganne)
2020-03-26 18:52 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-26 19:00 ` Benoit Ganne (bganne)
2020-03-26 20:09 ` Mark Bloch [this message]
2020-03-26 20:40 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-26 21:31 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-27 10:02 ` Benoit Ganne (bganne)
2020-03-27 10:13 ` Thomas Monjalon
2020-03-27 17:26 ` Benoit Ganne (bganne)
2020-03-27 22:34 ` Thomas Monjalon
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