[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ovs-bugtool: Add ethtool -l for combined channel.

Yi-Hung Wei yihung.wei at gmail.com
Wed Apr 29 18:13:38 UTC 2020


On Wed, Apr 29, 2020 at 10:46 AM William Tu <u9012063 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Users of netdev-afxdp has to setup the combined channel
> on physical NIC. This helps debugging related issues.
> Example output:
>   $ ethtool -l enp3s0f0
>   Channel parameters for enp3s0f0:
>   Pre-set maximums:
>   RX:        0
>   TX:        0
>   Other:     1
>   Combined:  63
>   Current hardware settings:
>   RX:        0
>   TX:        0
>   Other:     1
>   Combined:  1
>
> Some previous discussion:
> https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2020-January/366631.html
>
> Signed-off-by: William Tu <u9012063 at gmail.com>

Given that each NIC has different implementation on their rx, tx,
combined queue as mentioned in
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2020-January/366631.html

I think it is a good idea to at log that in the bugtool.

Acked-by: Yi-Hung Wei <yihung.wei at gmail.com>


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