When PF is put in no-carrier state, iavf VFs will switch to "in carrier" state due to a link up + a link speed set to 0 (default value if no speed detected).
To be consistent with linux drivers on which PF and VFs are in same carrier state, 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