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* [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] i40e: remove ALLOW_LB flag on SRIOV vsi
@ 2015-03-20  7:31 Jingjing Wu
  2015-03-24  2:37 ` Zhang, Helin
  2015-03-25  3:14 ` Xu, HuilongX
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 4+ messages in thread
From: Jingjing Wu @ 2015-03-20  7:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: dev

Disable VEB switching by removing ALLOW_LB on SRIOV vsi.

If the source mac address of packet sent from VF is not listed in the
VEB's mac table, the VEB will switch the packet back to the VF.
It's a hardware issue. Enabling ALLOW_LB flag will block VF functions.

Signed-off-by: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu@intel.com>
---
 lib/librte_pmd_i40e/i40e_ethdev.c | 14 +++++++++-----
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/librte_pmd_i40e/i40e_ethdev.c b/lib/librte_pmd_i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
index cf6685e..28ea5dc 100644
--- a/lib/librte_pmd_i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
+++ b/lib/librte_pmd_i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
@@ -3059,11 +3059,15 @@ i40e_vsi_setup(struct i40e_pf *pf,
 		ctxt.connection_type = 0x1;
 		ctxt.flags = I40E_AQ_VSI_TYPE_VF;
 
-		/* Configure switch ID */
-		ctxt.info.valid_sections |=
-			rte_cpu_to_le_16(I40E_AQ_VSI_PROP_SWITCH_VALID);
-		ctxt.info.switch_id =
-			rte_cpu_to_le_16(I40E_AQ_VSI_SW_ID_FLAG_ALLOW_LB);
+		/**
+		 * Do not configure switch ID to enable VEB switch by
+		 * I40E_AQ_VSI_SW_ID_FLAG_ALLOW_LB. Because in Fortville,
+		 * if the source mac address of packet sent from VF is not
+		 * listed in the VEB's mac table, the VEB will switch the
+		 * packet back to the VF. Need to enable it when HW issue
+		 * is fixed.
+		 */
+
 		/* Configure port/vlan */
 		ctxt.info.valid_sections |=
 			rte_cpu_to_le_16(I40E_AQ_VSI_PROP_VLAN_VALID);
-- 
1.9.3

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