[ovs-dev] [branch-2.7 PATCH] netdev-dpdk: Fix failure to configure flow control at netdev-init.

Sugesh Chandran sugesh.chandran at intel.com
Wed Jul 18 16:48:57 UTC 2018


This patch backports the commit from the latest OVS master to OVS-2.7.

Configuring flow control at ixgbe netdev-init is throwing error in port
start.

For eg: without this fix, user cannot configure flow control on ixgbe dpdk
port as below,

"
    ovs-vsctl add-port br0 dpdk0 -- set Interface dpdk0 type=dpdk \
        options:dpdk-devargs=0000:05:00.1 options:rx-flow-ctrl=true
"

Instead,  it must be configured as two different commands,

"
    ovs-vsctl add-port br0 dpdk0 -- set Interface dpdk0 type=dpdk \
               options:dpdk-devargs=0000:05:00.1
    ovs-vsctl set Interface dpdk0 options:rx-flow-ctrl=true
"

The DPDK ixgbe driver is now validating all the 'rte_eth_fc_conf' fields before
trying to configuring the dpdk ethdev. Hence OVS can no longer set the
'dont care' fields to just '0' as before. This commit make sure all the
'rte_eth_fc_conf' fields are populated with default values before the dev
init.

Signed-off-by: Sugesh Chandran <sugesh.chandran at intel.com>
---
 lib/netdev-dpdk.c | 15 ++++++++-------
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/netdev-dpdk.c b/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
index d82c9e2..18f94c4 100644
--- a/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
+++ b/lib/netdev-dpdk.c
@@ -831,13 +831,6 @@ dpdk_eth_dev_init(struct netdev_dpdk *dev)
     mbp_priv = rte_mempool_get_priv(dev->dpdk_mp->mp);
     dev->buf_size = mbp_priv->mbuf_data_room_size - RTE_PKTMBUF_HEADROOM;
 
-    /* Get the Flow control configuration for DPDK-ETH */
-    diag = rte_eth_dev_flow_ctrl_get(dev->port_id, &dev->fc_conf);
-    if (diag) {
-        VLOG_DBG("cannot get flow control parameters on port=%d, err=%d",
-                 dev->port_id, diag);
-    }
-
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -1305,6 +1298,14 @@ netdev_dpdk_set_config(struct netdev *netdev, const struct smap *args,
     autoneg = smap_get_bool(args, "flow-ctrl-autoneg", false);
 
     fc_mode = fc_mode_set[tx_fc_en][rx_fc_en];
+    /* Get the Flow control configuration for DPDK-ETH */
+    err = rte_eth_dev_flow_ctrl_get(dev->port_id, &dev->fc_conf);
+    if (err) {
+        VLOG_WARN("cannot get flow control parameters on port %"PRIu16
+                  ", err=%d", dev->port_id, err);
+    }
+
+
     if (dev->fc_conf.mode != fc_mode || autoneg != dev->fc_conf.autoneg) {
         dev->fc_conf.mode = fc_mode;
         dev->fc_conf.autoneg = autoneg;
-- 
2.7.4



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