[ovs-dev] [PATCH v2 1/1] docs: Add flow control on i40e issue

Ilya Maximets i.maximets at ovn.org
Tue Sep 15 20:10:41 UTC 2020


On 2/17/20 12:37 PM, Tomasz Konieczny wrote:
> There is an issue with flow control configuration on i40e devices
> and it has a work around. We add this to documentation as known issue
> until a permanent solution is developed.

Hi.

I'm looking through old patches and it seem like this one might be still
useful, but it wasn't actually applied.

Does this issue still exist or it was fixed in some DPDK stable versions?

If not, I could apply this patch to master and backport down to 2.13.

Best regards, Ilya Maximets.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Tomasz Konieczny <tomaszx.konieczny at intel.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst | 9 +++++++++
>  Documentation/topics/dpdk/phy.rst    | 2 ++
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> index dbf88ec..be47a11 100644
> --- a/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/intro/install/dpdk.rst
> @@ -687,6 +687,15 @@ Limitations
>    around is temporary and is expected to be removed once a method is provided
>    by DPDK to query the upper bound MTU value for a given device.
>  
> +- Flow Control: When using i40e devices (Intel(R) 700 Series) it is recommended
> +  to set Link State Change detection to interrupt mode. Otherwise it has been
> +  observed that using the default polling mode, flow control changes may not be
> +  applied, and flow control states will not be reflected correctly.
> +  The issue is under investigation, this is a temporary work around.
> +
> +  For information about setting Link State Change detection, refer to
> +  :ref:`lsc-detection`.
> +
>  Reporting Bugs
>  --------------
>  
> diff --git a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/phy.rst b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/phy.rst
> index 38e52c8..55a98e2 100644
> --- a/Documentation/topics/dpdk/phy.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/topics/dpdk/phy.rst
> @@ -385,6 +385,8 @@ Jumbo Frames
>  DPDK physical ports can be configured to use Jumbo Frames. For more
>  information, refer to :doc:`jumbo-frames`.
>  
> +.. _lsc-detection:
> +
>  Link State Change (LSC) detection configuration
>  -----------------------------------------------
>  
> 



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