[dpdk-users] CX4-Lx VF link status in Azure

Thomas Monjalon thomas at monjalon.net
Fri Mar 27 11:13:34 CET 2020


27/03/2020 11:02, Benoit Ganne (bganne):
> > Second, as Benoit said, we should relax this requirement.
> > If the link speed is unknown, a second request can be tried, no more.
> > Benoit, feel free to submit a patch showing how you think it should
> > behave.
> > Otherwise, I guess a maintainer of mlx5 will try to arrange it later.
> > Note: a patch (even not perfect) is usually speeding up resolution.
> 
> I can do that, but I am not sure I understand the logic of this test to begin with: looking into other PMD (mlx4, i40e), it seems to be the only one worrying about updating link state only when "ready" for some not clear (to me) definition of "ready".
> I'll tend to agree with other PMD here: if the syscalls did not failed we should just update with what we know.
> Why was this test introduced and what did it fixed?

Unfortunately the reason was not documented.
I suggest we go with a patch from your understanding
and we'll test it in multiple conditions to validate nothing is broken.




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