On Wed, Jan 31, 2024 at 10:26:07AM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 11:06:07PM +0100, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 08:28:24PM +0100, Maciej Fijalkowski wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 10:59:13AM -0600, Seth Forshee wrote:
> > > > On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 05:14:23PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> > > > > Dear Seth,
> > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > Thank you for bring this up.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Am 30.01.24 um 15:17 schrieb Seth Forshee:
> > > > > > I got a inquiry from a colleague about a behavior he's seeing with 
> > > > > > i40e
> > > > > > but not with other NICs. The interfaces are bonded with a XDP
> > > > > > load-balancer program attached to them. After 'ip link set ethX 
> > > > > > down; ip
> > > > > > link set ethX up' on one of the interfaces the XDP program on that
> > > > > > interface is no longer transmitting packets. He found that tx starts
> > > > > > again after running 'sudo ethtool -t ethX'.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > There's a 'i40e 0000:d8:00.1: VSI seid 391 XDP Tx ring 0 disable
> > > > > > timeout' message in dmesg when disabling the interface. I've 
> > > > > > included
> > > > > > the relevant portions from dmesg below.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > This was first observed with a 6.1 kernel, but we've confirmed that 
> > > > > > the
> > > > > > behavior is the same in 6.7. I realize the firmware is pretty old, 
> > > > > > so
> > > > > > far our attempts to update the NVM have failed.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Does that mean, the problem didn’t happen before Linux 6.1? If so, if 
> > > > > you
> > > > > have the reproducer and the time, bisecting the issue is normally the
> > > > > fastest way to solve the issue.
> > > > 
> > > > No, sorry, I should have worded that better. I meant that they were
> > > > using 6.1 when they noticed the issue, not that kernels before 6.1 did
> > > > not have that issue. We've also tried a 5.15 kernel build now and still
> > > > see the issue there, we haven't tested anything older than that.
> > > 
> > > Hey Seth,
> > > 
> > > I am observing same thing on my side with xdpsock in txonly mode, so I'll
> > > take a look at this and will keep you updated.
> > 
> > Can you try this diff on your side?
> 
> That fixes the problem!

Awesome. I'll send a proper fix then and will keep you in loop.

> 
> Thanks,
> Seth

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