On Tue, Apr 10, 2018 at 09:13:36AM +0300, Shahaf Shuler wrote:
> Following commit 7ba5320baa32 ("net/mlx5: fix link status behavior")
> The initial link status is no longer set as part of the port start.
>
> When LSC interrupts are enabled, ethdev layer reads the link status
> directly from the device data instead of using the PMD callback.
> This may cause application to query the link as down while in fact it was
> already up before the DPDK application start (and no interrupt to fix
> it).
>
> Fixes: 7ba5320baa32 ("net/mlx5: fix link status behavior")
> Cc: nelio.laranje...@6wind.com
>
> Signed-off-by: Shahaf Shuler <shah...@mellanox.com>
> Acked-by: Yongseok Koh <ys...@mellanox.com>
> ---
>
> On v2:
> - Reworded commit log.
> - Cleared the wait_to_complete on the link update call.
>
> ---
> drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
> index cfab558979..3d222df707 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/mlx5/mlx5.c
> @@ -991,6 +991,12 @@ mlx5_pci_probe(struct rte_pci_driver *pci_drv
> __rte_unused,
> DRV_LOG(DEBUG, "port %u forcing Ethernet interface up",
> eth_dev->data->port_id);
> mlx5_set_link_up(eth_dev);
> + /*
> + * Even though the interrupt handler is not installed yet,
> + * interrupts will still trigger on the asyn_fd from
> + * Verbs context returned by ibv_open_device().
> + */
> + mlx5_link_update(eth_dev, 0);
> /* Store device configuration on private structure. */
> priv->config = config;
> continue;
> --
> 2.12.0
You should have linked this patch with the ethdev one[1], if the ethdev is
refused, this patch won't solve anything.
With a reserves of acceptance of [1]:
Acked-by: Nelio Laranjeiro <nelio.laranje...@6wind.com>
Thanks,
[1] https://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2018-April/096387.html
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Nélio Laranjeiro
6WIND
