[ovs-dev] netdev-dpdk: Support the link speed of XL710
Federico Iezzi
fiezzi at redhat.com
Fri Aug 31 03:54:25 UTC 2018
Any comment here?
This seems like a very easy commit :-)
On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 13:34, Ian Stokes <ian.stokes at intel.com> wrote:
> On 8/22/2018 6:14 PM, Federico Iezzi wrote:
> > DPDK exposes API all the way from 10Mbps to 100Gbps.
> > http://doc.dpdk.org/api/rte__ethdev_8h_source.html
> >
> > Can other cards be added? 25G is now getting really popular.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> It’s a good point, technically there’s nothing stopping users from using
> 25/50/56/100 Gbp HW.
>
> 25/50/56 Gb are not defined specifically as a port feature rate in the
> openflow specifications at this time so they would have to be defined as
> NETDEV_F_OTHER to correlate to the feature rate not being in the
> ofp_port feature list in openflow.
>
> The following incremental on the patch below should suffice:
>
> @@ -2735,9 +2735,21 @@ netdev_dpdk_get_features(const struct netdev
> *netdev,
> if (link.link_speed == ETH_SPEED_NUM_10G) {
> *current = NETDEV_F_10GB_FD;
> }
> + if (link.link_speed == ETH_SPEED_NUM_25G) {
> + *current = NETDEV_F_OTHER;
> + }
> if (link.link_speed == ETH_SPEED_NUM_40G) {
> *current = NETDEV_F_40GB_FD;
> }
> + if (link.link_speed == ETH_SPEED_NUM_50G) {
> + *current = NETDEV_F_OTHER;
> + }
> + if (link.link_speed == ETH_SPEED_NUM_56G) {
> + *current = NETDEV_F_OTHER;
> + }
> + if (link.link_speed == ETH_SPEED_NUM_100G) {
> + *current = NETDEV_F_100GB_FD;
> + }
>
> What are peoples thoughts? I can submit this as a separate patch if
> preferred.
>
> Thanks
> Ian
>
> Ian
>
> >
> > On Wed, 22 Aug 2018 at 16:28, Stokes, Ian <ian.stokes at intel.com
> > <mailto:ian.stokes at intel.com>> wrote:
> >
> > > In the scenario of XL710, the link speed which stored in the
> table of
> > > Interface is not 40G. Because the implementation of query of link
> > speed
> > > only support to 10G, the parameter 'current' will be a random
> > value in the
> > > scenario of higher link speed. In this case, incorrect link speed
> > of XL710
> > > nic will be stored in the database.
> > >
> >
> > Good catch, I've tested and it works as expected. I'll add this to
> > the dpdk_merge pull request for this week and backport it to the
> > previous release branches also.
> >
> > Thanks
> > Ian
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Xu Binbin <xu.binbin1 at zte.com.cn
> > <mailto:xu.binbin1 at zte.com.cn>>
> > > ---
> > > lib/netdev-dpdk.c | 3 +++
> > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/lib/netdev-dpdk.c b/lib/netdev-dpdk.c index
> > ac02a09..e4b6ced
> > > 100644
> > > --- a/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
> > > +++ b/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
> > > @@ -2735,6 +2735,9 @@ netdev_dpdk_get_features(const struct netdev
> > > *netdev,
> > > if (link.link_speed == ETH_SPEED_NUM_10G) {
> > > *current = NETDEV_F_10GB_FD;
> > > }
> > > + if (link.link_speed == ETH_SPEED_NUM_40G) {
> > > + *current = NETDEV_F_40GB_FD;
> > > + }
> > > }
> > >
> > > if (link.link_autoneg) {
> > > --
> > > 1.8.3.1
> > >
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