On Mon, 6 Feb, 2023, 2:15 pm Edwin Brossette, <edwin.brossette@6wind.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> Thank you for your quick answer.
>
> This was added long back in the driver code by this commit (as you can
>> see 6+ yrs old :)) , so I believe at the time the intent was to get
>> this link notification asynchronous
>> and 'lsc' I believe was for link state change?  Please suggest an
>> alternative place to do this or you may even post the patch yourself
>> to help do this the right way
>>
>
> Looking into testpmd's code, I found the following piece of code in
> init_port_config() :
>
>   >  if (lsc_interrupt && (*port->dev_info.dev_flags &
> RTE_ETH_DEV_INTR_LSC))
>   >              port->dev_conf.intr_conf.lsc = 1;
>
> I believe the flag RTE_ETH_DEV_INTR_LSC is used to inform the application
> that the pmd supports the use of link state change interrupts. Thus using
> this flag, the application itself can decide whether or not to enable the
> lsc interrupts depending on the need. The above code is used to enable
> these interrupts if the option --no-lsc-interrupts was not specified at
> test-pmd's start.
>
> Therefore, I can suggest enabling this flag and removing the line which
> sets lsc to 1 in bnxt_dev_info_get_op() so the above application can decide
> to turn these interrupts ON/OFF.
> A patch would look like something like this:
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ethdev.c
>> b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ethdev.c
>> index b3de490d3667..753e86b4b2af 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ethdev.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/bnxt/bnxt_ethdev.c
>> @@ -1017,7 +1017,6 @@ static int bnxt_dev_info_get_op(struct rte_eth_dev
>> *eth_dev,
>>                 .tx_free_thresh = 32,
>>                 .tx_rs_thresh = 32,
>>         };
>> -       eth_dev->data->dev_conf.intr_conf.lsc = 1;
>>
>>         dev_info->rx_desc_lim.nb_min = BNXT_MIN_RING_DESC;
>>         dev_info->rx_desc_lim.nb_max = BNXT_MAX_RX_RING_DESC;
>> @@ -5859,6 +5858,7 @@ bnxt_dev_init(struct rte_eth_dev *eth_dev, void
>> *params __rte_unused)
>>
>>         rte_eth_copy_pci_info(eth_dev, pci_dev);
>>         eth_dev->data->dev_flags |= RTE_ETH_DEV_AUTOFILL_QUEUE_XSTATS;
>> +       eth_dev->data->dev_flags |= RTE_ETH_DEV_INTR_LSC;
>>
>>         bp = eth_dev->data->dev_private;
>>
>
> I will submit a proper patch to dev as soon as I will have my subscription
> to the mailing list verified.
>
Great, thank you so much for your response..i see your patch submitted on
dev as well, well ack it soon

>
> It can be tested in test-pmd: When starting test-pmd with
> --no-lsc-interrupt, the log I introduced previously shows:
> ><><><><!!<devstart>: dev->data->dev_conf.intr_conf=0
>
> If I start it without the option, it shows instead:
> ><><><><!!<devstart>: dev->data->dev_conf.intr_conf=1
>
> So what happens if/when you get rid of that lsc setting line in
>> dev_info_get_op() and actually enabled the 'else' part of the above
>> code snippet ? Was it helping your link to come up with proper values?
>>
>
> With the patch, my link is displayed with the proper state: link cannot be
> set up and is shown in down state, which corresponds to its actual state.
> I can show the following testpmd logs to illustrate:
>
> testpmd> port config 0 speed auto duplex auto
>> testpmd> port start 0
>> Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
>> bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): App supplied RXQ drop_en status : 1
>> bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): RX Buf MTU 1500
>> bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): RX Buf size is 9728
>> bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): App supplied RXQ drop_en status : 1
>> bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): RX Buf MTU 1500
>> bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): RX Buf size is 9728
>> bnxt_mq_rx_configure(): pools = 1 nb_q_per_grp = 2
>> bnxt_mq_rx_configure(): rxq[0] = 0x10040b080 vnic[0] = 0x100227080
>> bnxt_mq_rx_configure(): rxq[1] = 0x105fb0e40 vnic[0] = 0x100227080
>> bnxt_setup_one_vnic(): vnic[0] = 0x100227080 vnic->fw_grp_ids =
>> 0x105fa7400
>> bnxt_hwrm_vnic_alloc(): Alloc VNIC. Start 0, End 2
>> bnxt_hwrm_vnic_alloc(): VNIC ID 2
>> bnxt_setup_one_vnic(): rxq[0]->vnic=0x100227080
>> vnic->fw_grp_ids=0x105fa7400
>> bnxt_setup_one_vnic(): rxq[1]->vnic=0x100227080
>> vnic->fw_grp_ids=0x105fa7400
>> bnxt_setup_one_vnic(): vnic->rx_queue_cnt = 2
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Speed:0,Auto:0:0:140,Support:140,Force:64
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Signal:0,PAM::Auto:0,Support:0,Force:0
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Speed:0,Auto:4:64:140,Support:140,Force:0
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Signal:0,PAM::Auto:0,Support:0,Force:0
>> bnxt_ulp_port_init(): Skip ulp init for port: 0, TF is not enabled
>> bnxt_receive_function(): Using SSE vector mode receive for port 0
>> bnxt_transmit_function(): Using SSE vector mode transmit for port 0
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Speed:0,Auto:4:64:140,Support:140,Force:0
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Signal:0,PAM::Auto:0,Support:0,Force:0
>> Port 0: 00:0A:F7:B6:E3:D0
>> Checking link statuses...
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Speed:0,Auto:4:64:140,Support:140,Force:0
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Signal:0,PAM::Auto:0,Support:0,Force:0
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Speed:0,Auto:4:64:140,Support:140,Force:0
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Signal:0,PAM::Auto:0,Support:0,Force:0
>>
> [...]
>>
> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Speed:0,Auto:4:64:140,Support:140,Force:0
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Signal:0,PAM::Auto:0,Support:0,Force:0
>> Port 0 Link down
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Speed:0,Auto:4:64:40,Support:140,Force:0
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Signal:0,PAM::Auto:0,Support:0,Force:0
>> Port 1 Link down
>> Done
>> testpmd> show port info 0
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Speed:0,Auto:4:64:140,Support:140,Force:0
>> bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Signal:0,PAM::Auto:0,Support:0,Force:0
>>
>> ********************* Infos for port 0  *********************
>> MAC address: 00:0A:F7:B6:E3:D0
>> Device name: 0000:02:00.0
>> Driver name: net_bnxt
>> Firmware-version: 223.0.161.0
>> Devargs:
>> Connect to socket: 0
>> memory allocation on the socket: 0
>> Link status: down                                <======================
>> Link speed: None
>> Link duplex: half-duplex
>> Autoneg status: Off
>> MTU: 1500
>> Promiscuous mode: enabled
>> Allmulticast mode: disabled
>> Maximum number of MAC addresses: 128
>> Maximum number of MAC addresses of hash filtering: 0
>> VLAN offload:
>>   strip off, filter off, extend off, qinq strip off
>> Hash key size in bytes: 40
>> Redirection table size: 128
>> Supported RSS offload flow types:
>>   ipv4  ipv4-tcp  ipv4-udp  ipv6  ipv6-tcp  ipv6-udp
>>   user-defined-50  user-defined-51
>> Minimum size of RX buffer: 1
>> Maximum configurable length of RX packet: 9600
>> Maximum configurable size of LRO aggregated packet: 0
>> Maximum number of VMDq pools: 64
>> Current number of RX queues: 2
>> Max possible RX queues: 117
>> Max possible number of RXDs per queue: 8192
>> Min possible number of RXDs per queue: 16
>> RXDs number alignment: 1
>> Current number of TX queues: 2
>> Max possible TX queues: 117
>> Max possible number of TXDs per queue: 4096
>> Min possible number of TXDs per queue: 16
>> TXDs number alignment: 1
>> Max segment number per packet: 65535
>> Max segment number per MTU/TSO: 65535
>> Device capabilities: 0x3( RUNTIME_RX_QUEUE_SETUP RUNTIME_TX_QUEUE_SETUP )
>> Switch name: 0000:02:00.0
>> Switch domain Id: 0
>> Switch Port Id: 32768
>> Device error handling mode: proactive
>> testpmd>
>>
>
>  Here you can see the link status appears down if lsc interrupts are
> turned off, which is the expected result.
>
> Sincerely,
> Edwin Brossette.
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 6:08 AM Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, Jan 19, 2023 at 7:07 PM Edwin Brossette
>> <edwin.brossette@6wind.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> Hi Edwin,
>>  Thanks for reaching out, here's my attempt at answering your questions
>> > I am trying to operate a Broadcom BCM57414 2x10G nic using dpdk bnxt
>> pmd. I use DPDK 22.11.
>> > However, doing so I stumbled over a number of different issues. Mainly,
>> using the dpdk rte_eth library, I don't seem to be able to correctly poll
>> the link status: I expect my nic has a problem using autoneg to set the
>> link speed/duplex, because these parameters remain unknown while autoneg is
>> on. However, after trying to set link up, instead of showing the link state
>> as down, I see the link being up, which is in truth not the case, as no
>> packets can transit on the line and the switch at the other end sees it
>> down.
>> >
>> > When searching around and trying to debug the code, I found the
>> function bnxt_dev_info_get_op() sets my nic in interrupt mode:
>> >
>> > > eth_dev->data->dev_conf.intr_conf.lsc = 1;
>> This was added long back in the driver code by this commit (as you can
>> see 6+ yrs old :)) , so I believe at the time the intent was to get
>> this link notification asynchronous
>> and 'lsc' I believe was for link state change?  Please suggest an
>> alternative place to do this or you may even post the patch yourself
>> to help do this the right way
>> commit 7bc8e9a227ccbc649c2d230f0ee92ee58b1cb955
>> Author: Ajit Khaparde <ajit.khaparde@broadcom.com>
>> Date:   Tue Oct 11 16:47:50 2016 -0500
>>
>>     net/bnxt: support async link notification
>>
>> >
>> > Which is a bit of a surprising thing to do for a function meant to get
>> info.
>> > Thus my card ends up working in a mode I didn't configure it to, which
>> may be the cause of my issue: later when setting the link up in function
>> bnxt_dev_set_link_up_op():
>> >
>> > >  if (!bp->link_info->link_up)
>> > >     rc = bnxt_set_hwrm_link_config(bp, true);
>> > >  if (!rc)
>> > >     eth_dev->data->dev_link.link_status = 1;
>> >
>> > So link_status in eth_dev gets set to 1 as long as the operation did
>> not return any error code. This is the case when setting my card's link up
>> (rc=0), although the link clearly can't get up, for whatever other bug is
>> present. Now this shouldn't be much of an issue given we will update the
>> link status at some point, mainly in rte_eth_link_get_nowait():
>> >
>> > >  if (dev->data->dev_conf.intr_conf.lsc && dev->data->dev_started)
>> > >     rte_eth_linkstatus_get(dev, eth_link);
>> > >  else {
>> > >     if (*dev->dev_ops->link_update == NULL)
>> > >         return -ENOTSUP;
>> > >     (*dev->dev_ops->link_update)(dev, 0);
>> > >      *eth_link = dev->data->dev_link;
>> >
>> > Here we can see in the else statement that the link status gets
>> updated. However because the pmd auto-configured the nic in interrupt mode
>> when calling the get_info function, we are not going through that else
>> statement. So when reading the value of the link_status, we read 1 instead
>> of 0. I suppose with interrupt mode enabled, the nic should be able to
>> update this variable on its own, but it is clearly not the case in my
>> setup: link status is never updated and incorrectly indicates the link is
>> UP.
>> >
>> So what happens if/when you get rid of that lsc setting line in
>> dev_info_get_op() and actually enabled the 'else' part of the above
>> code snippet ? Was it helping your link to come up with proper values?
>> What is your link status on the other side ? (I believe you said
>> switch port, but have you tried with another card connected back-back
>> ?)  Also I'm assuming it comes up fine with the regular kernel driver
>> ?
>> What does that show ?
>> > I can suggest a testpmd reproduction setup using the --no-lsc-interrupt
>> option. With this option, dev_conf.intr_conf.lsc should be 0. In addition,
>> I added a log to the rte_eth library in rte_eth_dev_start() to display
>> dev_conf.intr_conf.lsc state when starting the port:
>> >
>> > > + RTE_ETHDEV_LOG(ERR, "><><><><!!<devstart>:
>> dev->data->dev_conf.intr_conf=%d\n", dev->data->dev_conf.intr_conf.lsc);
>> > >   diag = (*dev->dev_ops->dev_start)(dev);
>> >
>> > Running testpmd, we can see the following outpout when starting port:
>> >
>> > dpdk-testpmd --log-level=pmd.net.bnxt.driver:8 -a 0000:02:00.0 -a
>> 0000:02:00.1 -- -i --rxq=2 --txq=2 --coremask=0x0c --total-num-mbufs=250000
>> --no-lsc-interrupt
>> > [...]
>> > Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
>> > bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): App supplied RXQ drop_en status : 1
>> > bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): RX Buf MTU 1500
>> > bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): RX Buf size is 9728
>> > bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): App supplied RXQ drop_en status : 1
>> > bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): RX Buf MTU 1500
>> > bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): RX Buf size is 9728
>> > ><><><><!!<devstart>: dev->data->dev_conf.intr_conf=1
>> > bnxt_mq_rx_configure(): pools = 1 nb_q_per_grp = 2
>> > bnxt_mq_rx_configure(): rxq[0] = 0x105fb7ac0 vnic[0] = 0x100227080
>> > bnxt_mq_rx_configure(): rxq[1] = 0x105fb0e40 vnic[0] = 0x100227080
>> > bnxt_setup_one_vnic(): vnic[0] = 0x100227080 vnic->fw_grp_ids =
>> 0x105fa7e00
>> > bnxt_hwrm_vnic_alloc(): Alloc VNIC. Start 0, End 2
>> > bnxt_hwrm_vnic_alloc(): VNIC ID 2
>> > bnxt_setup_one_vnic(): rxq[0]->vnic=0x100227080
>> vnic->fw_grp_ids=0x105fa7e00
>> > bnxt_setup_one_vnic(): rxq[1]->vnic=0x100227080
>> vnic->fw_grp_ids=0x105fa7e00
>> > bnxt_setup_one_vnic(): vnic->rx_queue_cnt = 2
>> > bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link
>> Speed:0,Auto:4:64:140,Support:140,Force:0
>> > bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Signal:0,PAM::Auto:0,Support:0,Force:0
>> > bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link
>> Speed:0,Auto:4:64:140,Support:140,Force:0
>> > bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Signal:0,PAM::Auto:0,Support:0,Force:0
>> > bnxt_ulp_port_init(): Skip ulp init for port: 0, TF is not enabled
>> > bnxt_receive_function(): Using SSE vector mode receive for port 0
>> > bnxt_transmit_function(): Using SSE vector mode transmit for port 0
>> > Port 0: 00:0A:F7:B6:E3:D0
>> > Configuring Port 1 (socket 0)
>> > bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): App supplied RXQ drop_en status : 1
>> > bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): RX Buf MTU 1500
>> > bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): RX Buf size is 9728
>> > bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): App supplied RXQ drop_en status : 1
>> > bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): RX Buf MTU 1500
>> > bnxt_rx_queue_setup_op(): RX Buf size is 9728
>> > ><><><><!!<devstart>: dev->data->dev_conf.intr_conf=1
>> > bnxt_mq_rx_configure(): pools = 1 nb_q_per_grp = 2
>> > bnxt_mq_rx_configure(): rxq[0] = 0x106200280 vnic[0] = 0x100200080
>> > bnxt_mq_rx_configure(): rxq[1] = 0x105f10e40 vnic[0] = 0x100200080
>> > bnxt_setup_one_vnic(): vnic[0] = 0x100200080 vnic->fw_grp_ids =
>> 0x105f07e00
>> > bnxt_hwrm_vnic_alloc(): Alloc VNIC. Start 0, End 2
>> > bnxt_hwrm_vnic_alloc(): VNIC ID 3
>> > bnxt_setup_one_vnic(): rxq[0]->vnic=0x100200080
>> vnic->fw_grp_ids=0x105f07e00
>> > bnxt_setup_one_vnic(): rxq[1]->vnic=0x100200080
>> vnic->fw_grp_ids=0x105f07e00
>> > bnxt_setup_one_vnic(): vnic->rx_queue_cnt = 2
>> > bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link
>> Speed:0,Auto:4:64:140,Support:140,Force:0
>> > bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Signal:0,PAM::Auto:0,Support:0,Force:0
>> > bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link
>> Speed:0,Auto:4:64:140,Support:140,Force:0
>> > bnxt_hwrm_port_phy_qcfg(): Link Signal:0,PAM::Auto:0,Support:0,Force:0
>> > bnxt_ulp_port_init(): Skip ulp init for port: 1, TF is not enabled
>> > bnxt_receive_function(): Using SSE vector mode receive for port 1
>> > bnxt_transmit_function(): Using SSE vector mode transmit for port 1
>> > Port 1: 00:0A:F7:B6:E3:D1
>> >
>> > Here, we can see that lsc interrupts are enabled even though we
>> specified not to enable them. Then given autoneg does not work on my nic, I
>> can try setting the link up and showing port info:
>> >
>> > testpmd> set link-up port 0
>> > bnxt_print_link_info(): Port 0 Link Up - speed 0 Mbps - half-duplex
>> >
>> > testpmd> show port info 0
>> >
>> > ********************* Infos for port 0  *********************
>> > MAC address: 00:0A:F7:B6:E3:D0
>> > Device name: 0000:02:00.0
>> > Driver name: net_bnxt
>> > Firmware-version: 223.0.161.0
>> > Devargs:
>> > Connect to socket: 0
>> > memory allocation on the socket: 0
>> > Link status: up
>> > Link speed: None
>> > Link duplex: half-duplex
>> > Autoneg status: Off
>> > MTU: 1500
>> > Promiscuous mode: enabled
>> > Allmulticast mode: disabled
>> > Maximum number of MAC addresses: 128
>> > Maximum number of MAC addresses of hash filtering: 0
>> > VLAN offload:
>> >   strip off, filter off, extend off, qinq strip off
>> > Hash key size in bytes: 40
>> > Redirection table size: 128
>> > Supported RSS offload flow types:
>> >   ipv4  ipv4-tcp  ipv4-udp  ipv6  ipv6-tcp  ipv6-udp
>> >   user-defined-50  user-defined-51
>> > Minimum size of RX buffer: 1
>> > Maximum configurable length of RX packet: 9600
>> > Maximum configurable size of LRO aggregated packet: 0
>> > Maximum number of VMDq pools: 64
>> > Current number of RX queues: 2
>> > Max possible RX queues: 117
>> > Max possible number of RXDs per queue: 8192
>> > Min possible number of RXDs per queue: 16
>> > RXDs number alignment: 1
>> > Current number of TX queues: 2
>> > Max possible TX queues: 117
>> > Max possible number of TXDs per queue: 4096
>> > Min possible number of TXDs per queue: 16
>> > TXDs number alignment: 1
>> > Max segment number per packet: 65535
>> > Max segment number per MTU/TSO: 65535
>> > Device capabilities: 0x3( RUNTIME_RX_QUEUE_SETUP RUNTIME_TX_QUEUE_SETUP
>> )
>> > Switch name: 0000:02:00.0
>> > Switch domain Id: 0
>> > Switch Port Id: 32768
>> > Device error handling mode: proactive
>> >
>> > This shows link status is seen as up, even although link speed is None.
>> >
>> > I was wondering if patching the code to move this line which sets lsc
>> interrupt on somewhere else might be reasonable, or if this could cause
>> further trouble. Maybe having a parameter to trigger it ON/OFF might be a
>> good addition.
>> > May I have your opinion on this matter?
>> >
>> > Sincerely,
>> > Edwin Brossette
>>
>