[dpdk-dev] status of bnx2x driver?

[dpdk-dev] status of bnx2x driver?

[Montorsi, Francesco]

Hi all,
I'm trying to use DPDK 17.11.2 and DPDK 18.02.1 with a 
   Broadcom Limited NetXtreme II BCM57810 10 Gigabit Ethernet [14e4:168e]
NIC.

I did set
   CONFIG_RTE_LIBRTE_BNX2X_PMD=y
And then tried the "testpmd" application.
Here's what I get:

EAL: Detected 32 lcore(s)
EAL: Probing VFIO support...
EAL: PCI device 0000:03:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb
EAL: PCI device 0000:03:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb
EAL: PCI device 0000:03:00.2 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb
EAL: PCI device 0000:03:00.3 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 8086:1521 net_e1000_igb
EAL: PCI device 0000:0a:00.0 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 14e4:168e net_bnx2x
EAL: PCI device 0000:0a:00.1 on NUMA socket 0
EAL:   probe driver: 14e4:168e net_bnx2x
Interactive-mode selected
USER1: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_0>: n=163456, size=2176, socket=0
USER1: create a new mbuf pool <mbuf_pool_socket_1>: n=163456, size=2176, socket=1
Configuring Port 0 (socket 0)
Fail to start port 0
Configuring Port 1 (socket 0)
Fail to start port 1

In dmesg I see:

...
[   11.006979] bnx2x 0000:0a:00.0 ens3f0: Parity errors detected in blocks:
[   11.007010] bnx2x: [bnx2x_open:12538(ens3f0)]Recovery flow hasn't been properly completed yet. Try again later.
[   11.014147] bnx2x 0000:0a:00.1 ens3f1: Parity errors detected in blocks:
[   11.014167] bnx2x: [bnx2x_open:12538(ens3f1)]Recovery flow hasn't been properly completed yet. Try again later.
[  267.647210] bnx2x: [bnx2x_fw_command:3043(ens3f0)]FW failed to respond!
[  267.647295] bnx2x 0000:0a:00.0 ens3f0: bc 7.15.3
[  267.647343] bnx2x: [bnx2x_fw_dump_lvl:782(ens3f0)]3MCP PC at 0xffffffff
[  273.551294] bnx2x: [bnx2x_fw_command:3043(ens3f1)]FW failed to respond!
[  273.551382] bnx2x 0000:0a:00.1 ens3f1: bc 7.15.3
[  273.551433] bnx2x: [bnx2x_fw_dump_lvl:782(ens3f1)]3MCP PC at 0xffffffff
[  273.551506] bnx2x: [bnx2x_fw_dump_lvl:794(ens3f1)]Unable to dump trace buffer (mark ffffffff)
...

So my question is: what's the status of the bnx2x driver?
(apparently somebody already asked that in 2015: http://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2015-November/027214.html ... I'm asking if there were any improvements)


Thanks,
Francesco Montorsi