[dpdk-dev] mlx5 flow create/destroy behaviour
Nélio Laranjeiro
nelio.laranjeiro at 6wind.com
Fri Mar 31 10:34:53 CEST 2017
On Thu, Mar 30, 2017 at 04:53:47PM +0000, Legacy, Allain wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nélio Laranjeiro [mailto:nelio.laranjeiro at 6wind.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2017 9:03 AM
> <...>
> > I found an issue on the id retrieval while receiving an high rate of the
> > same flow [1]. You may face the same issue. Can you verify with the
> > patch?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > [1] http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/22897/
>
> I had some difficulty applying that patch onto v17.02 so I took all of
> the patches to the mlx5 driver that are in dpdk-next-net just to be
> sure I had all other outstanding fixes.
>
> The behavior did not change. I still see flows that are not marked
> even after a flow rule has been created to match on that particular
> flow. It seems like it works in batches... 10-20 flows will work,
> and then the next 10-20 flows won't work, and then the next 10-20
> flows will work. But, in all cases I have logs that show that the
> flow rules were created properly for all flows, and destroyed properly
> at the end of each test. It seems pretty consistent that the first
> test after a NIC reset always works on all flows, but then subsequent
> tests see variable results. Every so often I get another test run
> that has no issues but then the failure pattern resumes on the next
> attemp.
+ Olga Shern,
Allain,
Thanks for all this tests, for this last point is seems to be a firmware
or hardware issue, I don't have any way to help on that case.
I suggest you to contact directly Mellanox to have some support
regarding this.
Thanks,
--
Nélio Laranjeiro
6WIND
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