When app tries promisc/allmulti setting, fm10k will check if a valid glort is acquired, if not then exit without doing anything. It's a long journey for VF to acquire glort info from VF to PF mailbox, PF to switch mailbox. It could be a long interval that's out of DPDK's control. Thus, app may fail on promisc/allmulti setting in VF. In fact, we don't need a valid glort value in VF, so this patch just skips the glort check for VF.
Fixes: df02ba864695 ("fm10k: support promiscuous mode") Signed-off-by: Wang Xiao W <xiao.w.wang at intel.com> --- drivers/net/fm10k/fm10k_ethdev.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/fm10k/fm10k_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/fm10k/fm10k_ethdev.c index c2d377f..b3aefdb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/fm10k/fm10k_ethdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/fm10k/fm10k_ethdev.c @@ -947,7 +947,7 @@ fm10k_dev_promiscuous_enable(struct rte_eth_dev *dev) PMD_INIT_FUNC_TRACE(); /* Return if it didn't acquire valid glort range */ - if (!fm10k_glort_valid(hw)) + if ((hw->mac.type == fm10k_mac_pf) && !fm10k_glort_valid(hw)) return; fm10k_mbx_lock(hw); @@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ fm10k_dev_promiscuous_disable(struct rte_eth_dev *dev) PMD_INIT_FUNC_TRACE(); /* Return if it didn't acquire valid glort range */ - if (!fm10k_glort_valid(hw)) + if ((hw->mac.type == fm10k_mac_pf) && !fm10k_glort_valid(hw)) return; if (dev->data->all_multicast == 1) @@ -995,7 +995,7 @@ fm10k_dev_allmulticast_enable(struct rte_eth_dev *dev) PMD_INIT_FUNC_TRACE(); /* Return if it didn't acquire valid glort range */ - if (!fm10k_glort_valid(hw)) + if ((hw->mac.type == fm10k_mac_pf) && !fm10k_glort_valid(hw)) return; /* If promiscuous mode is enabled, it doesn't make sense to enable @@ -1026,7 +1026,7 @@ fm10k_dev_allmulticast_disable(struct rte_eth_dev *dev) PMD_INIT_FUNC_TRACE(); /* Return if it didn't acquire valid glort range */ - if (!fm10k_glort_valid(hw)) + if ((hw->mac.type == fm10k_mac_pf) && !fm10k_glort_valid(hw)) return; if (dev->data->promiscuous) { -- 1.9.3