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Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:42:10 -0700
From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Damodharam Ammepalli <damodharam.ammepalli@broadcom.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] support setting lanes
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On Mon, 18 Mar 2024 14:26:33 -0700
Damodharam Ammepalli <damodharam.ammepalli@broadcom.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 7:56=E2=80=AFAM Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.=
net> wrote:
> >
> > 12/03/2024 08:52, Dengdui Huang: =20
> > > Some speeds can be achieved with different number of lanes. For examp=
le,
> > > 100Gbps can be achieved using two lanes of 50Gbps or four lanes of 25=
Gbps.
> > > When use different lanes, the port cannot be up. =20
> >
> > I'm not sure what you are referring to.
> > I suppose it is not PCI lanes.
> > Please could you link to an explanation of how a port is split in lanes?
> > Which hardware does this?
> >
> >
> > =20
> This is a snapshot of 100Gb that the latest BCM576xx supports.
> 100Gb (NRZ: 25G per lane, 4 lanes) link speed
> 100Gb (PAM4-56: 50G per lane, 2 lanes) link speed
> 100Gb (PAM4-112: 100G per lane, 1 lane) link speed
>=20
> Let the user feed in lanes=3D< integer value> and the NIC driver decides
> the matching combination speed x lanes that works. In future if a new spe=
ed
> is implemented with more than 8 lanes, there wouldn't be a need
> to touch this speed command. Using separate lane command would
> be a better alternative to support already shipped products and only new
> drivers would consider this lanes configuration, if applicable.
>=20

The DPDK does not need more driver specific knobs.
Shouldn't the PMD be able to auto negotiate the speed?
What does Linux do?