Hi Haider:
From your first post, ofed version of B is higher, you are right. Fw version is lower – please ignore 16 and 22 prefix which is NIC type.
version: 5.4-3.1.0
firmware-version: 16.32.1010 (MT_0000000080)
version: 5.4-3.5.8
firmware-version: 22.31.1014 (MT_0000000436)
Thanks,
Xueming
From: Haider Ali <haider@dreambigsemi.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 14:11
To: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
Cc: users <users@dpdk.org>; Asaf Penso <asafp@nvidia.com>
Subject: Re: mlx5 - shared_rxq not working on some Connect x6 DX
Server B has higher versions of OFED and firmware than server A. Please let me know if are you asking me to downgrade OFED and firmware on server B.
Have you removed shared RXQ features in higher versions of OFED and firmware?
Regards,
Haider
From: Xueming(Steven) Li <xuemingl@nvidia.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 18, 2022 11:04 AM
To: Haider Ali <haider@dreambigsemi.com>
Cc: users <users@dpdk.org>; Asaf Penso <asafp@nvidia.com>
Subject: RE: mlx5 - shared_rxq not working on some Connect x6 DX
Hi Haider,
The device capability is critical to support shared RXQ.
The OFED and firmware version of server B seems not up to date, could please align with server A?
Best Regards,
Xueming Li
From: Asaf Penso <asafp@nvidia.com>
Sent: Thursday, October 6, 2022 14:45
To: Haider Ali <haider@dreambigsemi.com>; users <users@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: mlx5 - shared_rxq not working on some Connect x6 DX
Hello Haider,
Besides the info print issue, can you describe what is the use case?
What do you try to achieve and whether you see any issue?
Regards,
Asaf Penso
From: Haider Ali <haider@dreambigsemi.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 4, 2022 4:24:03 PM
To: users <users@dpdk.org>
Cc: Asaf Penso <asafp@nvidia.com>
Subject: mlx5 - shared_rxq not working on some Connect x6 DX
Hi,
I used two servers A and B. Server A has Connect x5 and x6 DX cards while server B has Connect
x6 DX card.
I have checked with Connect x5 and x6 DX cards on "server A" and I am able to get below rxq_share device capability:
testpmd> show port info all
Device capabilities: 0x14(
RXQ_SHARE FLOW_SHARED_OBJECT_KEEP )
Server A setting:
# ofed_info -s
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.4-3.1.0.0:
# ethtool -i enp129s0f0
driver: mlx5_core
version: 5.4-3.1.0
firmware-version: 16.32.1010 (MT_0000000080)
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:81:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: yes
But when I moved to server B with another Connect x6 DX card, I could not see this capability.
testpmd> show port info all
Device capabilities: 0x14( FLOW_SHARED_OBJECT_KEEP
)
Server B Settings:
# ofed_info -s
MLNX_OFED_LINUX-5.4-3.5.8.0:
# ethtool -i enp132s0f0
driver: mlx5_core
version: 5.4-3.5.8
firmware-version: 22.31.1014 (MT_0000000436)
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0000:84:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: yes
Although server B has higher versions of OFED and firmware, my question is do I need to enable/disable firmware settings? Or are there any other configurations we need
to apply?
Regards,
Haider