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From: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
To: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>,
	Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>,
	 Beilei Xing <beilei.xing@intel.com>,
	Bernard Iremonger <bernard.iremonger@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org, Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>,
	Steve Yang <stevex.yang@intel.com>,
	Thomas Monjalon <thomas@monjalon.net>,
	Konstantin Ananyev <konstantin.ananyev@intel.com>,
	Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>,
	Lance Richardson <lance.richardson@broadcom.com>,
	Igor Romanov <Igor.Romanov@oktetlabs.ru>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] app/testpmd: fix MTU after device configure
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2020 17:53:22 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <336c632d-a0b0-464d-09a1-881c2b3f74ff@oktetlabs.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201113114400.3356527-1-ferruh.yigit@intel.com>

On 11/13/20 2:44 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> In 'rte_eth_dev_configure()', if 'DEV_RX_OFFLOAD_JUMBO_FRAME' is not set
> the max frame size is limited to 'RTE_ETHER_MAX_LEN' (1518).
> This is mistake because for the PMDs that has frame size bigger than
> "RTE_ETHER_HDR_LEN + RTE_ETHER_CRC_LEN" (18 bytes), the MTU becomes
> less than 1500, causing a valid frame with 1500 bytes payload to be
> dropped.
> 
> Since 'rte_eth_dev_set_mtu()' works as expected, it is called after
> 'rte_eth_dev_configure()' to fix the MTU.
> It may look redundant to set MTU after 'rte_eth_dev_configure()', both
> with default values, but it is not, the resulting MTU config can be
> different in the device based on frame overhead of the PMD.
> 
> And instead of setting the MTU to default value, it is first get via
> 'rte_eth_dev_get_mtu()' and set again, this is to cover cases MTU
> changed from testpmd command line.
> 
> 'rte_eth_dev_set_mtu()', '-ENOTSUP' error is ignored to prevent
> irrelevant warning messages for the virtual PMDs.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
> Reviewed-by: Qi Zhang <qi.z.zhang@intel.com>

Acked-by: Andrew Rybchenko <andrew.rybchenko@oktetlabs.ru>
Tested-by: Igor Romanov <igor.romanov@oktetlabs.ru>


  reply	other threads:[~2020-11-13 14:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-11-05 18:09 [dpdk-dev] [RFC] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-11-11 12:58 ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-11-13 10:37 ` Zhang, Qi Z
2020-11-13 11:44 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] " Ferruh Yigit
2020-11-13 14:53   ` Andrew Rybchenko [this message]
2020-11-13 16:01     ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-11-16 18:50   ` Ferruh Yigit
2020-11-16 20:24     ` Thomas Monjalon

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