> -----Original Message-----
> From: dev <dev-boun...@dpdk.org> On Behalf Of Qiming Chen
> Sent: Monday, August 23, 2021 11:46 AM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Xing, Beilei <beilei.x...@intel.com>; Qiming Chen
> <chenqiming_hua...@163.com>
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/i40e: extend the polling times of vf reset
>
> In the embedded RTOS environment, the x722 controller Ethernet card of the
> d2146nt chip, the vfio user mode driver takes over 8 vf ports in turn, but
> i40evf_check_vf_reset_done will probably fail.
>
> This issue has been discussed with intel&dpdk experts for 3 rounds before, and
> the version matching is no problem, and there is no substantial progress. The
> official website contacted external experts, but there was no response
> afterwards. Learning from the implementation of the i40evf kernel driver
> locally,
> after modifying the polling time from 1 second to 5s, the repeated restart
> process took over the start port test, and it was found that this probability
> was
> reduced to an order of magnitude acceptable to the user.
>
> The patch cannot fundamentally solve the failure problem, but it greatly slows
> down the probability of the problem. The modification is based on the i40evf
> kernel driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Qiming Chen <chenqiming_hua...@163.com>
> ---
> drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev_vf.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev_vf.c
> b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev_vf.c
> index f64db72e9a..924da8dfb4 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev_vf.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev_vf.c
> @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@
> /* busy wait delay in msec */
> #define I40EVF_BUSY_WAIT_DELAY 10
> #define I40EVF_BUSY_WAIT_COUNT 50
> -#define MAX_RESET_WAIT_CNT 20
> +#define MAX_RESET_WAIT_CNT 100
>
> #define I40EVF_ALARM_INTERVAL 50000 /* us */
>
> --
> 2.30.1.windows.1
The patch is not applied for main repo as i40evf will be removed, you can
submit a fix to dpdk-stable directly.
