> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sexton, Rory
> Sent: Monday, January 16, 2017 11:52 PM
> To: Wu, Jingjing <jingjing...@intel.com>
> Cc: dev@dpdk.org; Sexton, Rory <rory.sex...@intel.com>; Marjanovic,
> Nemanja <nemanja.marjano...@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v2] net/i40e: set no drop for traffic class
>
> From: Rory Sexton <rory.sex...@intel.com>
>
> The default traffic class in i40e is set to drop versus on ixgbe it isset to
> no
> drop. This means when packets build up in the RX SRAM on the NIC, they are
> dropped, and they do this when the SW descriptor rings fill up.
>
> This patch changes this behaviour and our testing shows there are no drops
> as a result.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rory Sexton <rory.sex...@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nemanja Marjanovic <nemanja.marjano...@intel.com>
> ---
> v2:
> * Changed to use existing api to set priority register directly.
>
> drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
> index 67778ba..97339b5 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/i40e/i40e_ethdev.c
> @@ -2985,8 +2985,11 @@ static int
> i40e_priority_flow_ctrl_set(__rte_unused struct rte_eth_dev *dev,
> __rte_unused struct rte_eth_pfc_conf *pfc_conf)
> {
> + struct i40e_hw *hw = I40E_DEV_PRIVATE_TO_HW(dev->data-
> >dev_private);
> +
> PMD_INIT_FUNC_TRACE();
>
> + I40E_WRITE_REG(hw, I40E_PRTDCB_TC2PFC, 0xff);
PRTDCB_TC2PFC is the Bitmap who controls the use of Priority Flow Control
(PFC) per each
TC. Bit n set to 1b indicates TC n uses PFC in Rx and Tx. The TC is referred as
a no-drop TC.
And if look the rte_eth_pfc_conf, there is a field called priority, which would
map to a TC.
Currently, the TC and priority is 1:1 map when dcb is enabled.
So how about change it like:
Check dcb info, and map the priority to tc, then
val = 0x1 << tc;
I40E_WRITE_REG(hw, I40E_PRTDCB_TC2PFC, val);
Thanks
Jingjing
> return -ENOSYS;
> }
>
> --
> 2.4.3
