[dpdk-dev] problem with continual link status down events

2016-09-01 Thread Coulson, Ken
I am seeing a problem with link state change using interrupts using a Broadwell with on-board 10G-BaseT LAN ports (0x15AD) running DPDK 16.04. There is an Ixia connected to the two 10G ports and both are initially up. One of the connections is brought down via the Ixia and the software gets a sin

[dpdk-dev] Question about driver/controller MTU enforcement with MTU less than jumbo frame size

2017-05-09 Thread Coulson, Ken
Is it possible to have an MTU enforced on rx that is less than jumbo size frames? >From the DPDK driver code snippet for ixgbe if MTU < 1518 then the jumbo_frame >control bit in the chip is set to 0. The controller manual says the maximum frame size is only meaningful when the jumbo_frame contro