From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Yerden Zhumabekov <e_zhumabekov@sts.kz>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: fall back to enable/disable irq mode
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2014 11:07:58 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140723110758.1c08c259@haswell> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1406086726-54032-2-git-send-email-e_zhumabekov@sts.kz>
On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 09:38:46 +0600
Yerden Zhumabekov <e_zhumabekov@sts.kz> wrote:
> Rewritten IRQ mode handling code introduced in commit 399a3f0d
> (igb_uio: fix IRQ mode handling) renders some faulty NICs (VMware
> e1000, for example) unusable if INTX mode is not supported.
>
> This patch gets these NICs up and running, but throwing a kernel
> warning.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yerden Zhumabekov <e_zhumabekov@sts.kz>
That is because the VMWare PCI INTX is broken.
The masking logic doesn't work.
Rather than applying this patch a deeper fix in E1000 and DPDK handling
of link state is needed. Better to just make the E1000 able
to function without IRQ for Link state than just pretend masking works.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-23 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-23 3:38 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio dropped support for some faulty NICs Yerden Zhumabekov
2014-07-23 3:38 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: fall back to enable/disable irq mode Yerden Zhumabekov
2014-07-23 18:07 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2014-07-23 18:09 ` Stephen Hemminger
2014-07-24 3:11 ` Yerden Zhumabekov
2014-07-24 15:11 ` Stephen Hemminger
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