When the link is down, mlx5 kernel driver reports the link speed as -1 (UNKNOWN_SPEED). We need turn it to 0 for such case, otherwise, it will be re-queried again due to the link_speed is not 0, due to following code:
1201 if (((link->link_speed == 0) && link->link_status) || 1202 ((link->link_speed != 0) && !link->link_status)) { 1203 /* 1204 * Inconsistent status. Event likely occurred before the 1205 * kernel netdevice exposes the new status. 1206 */ Fixes: 188408719888 ("net/mlx5: fix support for newer link speeds") Cc: sta...@dpdk.org Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <y...@fridaylinux.org> --- drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c index 6665076..492ca07 100644 --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5_ethdev.c @@ -808,6 +808,10 @@ mlx5_link_update_unlocked_gs(struct rte_eth_dev *dev, int wait_to_complete) return -1; } dev_link.link_speed = ecmd->speed; + if (link_speed == -1) + dev_link.link_speed = 0; + else + dev_link.link_speed = link_speed; sc = ecmd->link_mode_masks[0] | ((uint64_t)ecmd->link_mode_masks[1] << 32); priv->link_speed_capa = 0; -- 2.7.4