During PF/VF link update, a default speed value of 100M will be set if get_link_info has failed or speed is unknown.
Consequently if PF is put in no-carrier state, VFs will switch to "in carrier" state due to a link up + a link speed set to 100M (default value if no speed detected). To be consistent with linux drivers on which PF and VFs are in same carrier state, sets default speed to undefined (instead of 100M) and updates a link status of VF only if link is up and speed is different from undefined. Fixes: 48de41ca11f0 ("net/avf: enable link status update") Signed-off-by: SteveX Yang <stevex.y...@intel.com> --- drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c index f9dd5710c..ae508f2f0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/iavf/iavf_ethdev.c @@ -620,8 +620,9 @@ iavf_dev_link_update(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, } new_link.link_duplex = ETH_LINK_FULL_DUPLEX; - new_link.link_status = vf->link_up ? ETH_LINK_UP : - ETH_LINK_DOWN; + new_link.link_status = (vf->link_up && + new_link.link_speed != ETH_SPEED_NUM_NONE) + ? ETH_LINK_UP : ETH_LINK_DOWN; new_link.link_autoneg = !(dev->data->dev_conf.link_speeds & ETH_LINK_SPEED_FIXED); -- 2.17.1