[dpdk-dev] [PATCH] igb_uio: remove device reset in open

[Patil, Harish]

-----Original Message-----
From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
Date: Friday, October 20, 2017 at 9:57 AM
To: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com>, "Thotton, Shijith"
<Shijith.Thotton at cavium.com>, Gregory Etelson <gregory at weka.io>, Harish
Patil <Harish.Patil at cavium.com>
Cc: Thomas Monjalon <thomas at monjalon.net>, "dev at dpdk.org" <dev at dpdk.org>,
"stable at dpdk.org" <stable at dpdk.org>, Jianfeng Tan
<jianfeng.tan at intel.com>, George Prekas <george.prekas at epfl.ch>, Sergio
Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] igb_uio: remove device reset in open

>On 10/20/2017 9:55 AM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
>> Remove device reset during application start, the reset for application
>> exit still there.
>> 
>> Reset in open removed because of following comments:
>> 1- Device reset not completed when VF driver loaded, which cause VF PMD
>>    initialization error.
>>    Adding delay can solve the issue but will increase driver load time.
>> 
>> 2- Reset will be issues all devices unconditionally, not very efficient
>>    way.
>> 
>> Fixes: b58eedfc7dd5 ("igb_uio: issue FLR during open and release of
>>device file")
>> Cc: stable at dpdk.org
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit at intel.com>
>
>Hi Jingjing, Shijith, Gregory, Harish,
>
>Can you please test this on top of current master (which has already
>Jingjin's
>fix) ?
>
>Thanks,
>Ferruh


Ferruh,
Sure, will try and get back to you.
Thanks.
>
>> ---
>> Cc: Jianfeng Tan <jianfeng.tan at intel.com>
>> Cc: Jingjing Wu <jingjing.wu at intel.com>
>> Cc: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thotton at caviumnetworks.com>
>> Cc: Gregory Etelson <gregory at weka.io>
>> Cc: Harish Patil <harish.patil at cavium.com>
>> Cc: George Prekas <george.prekas at epfl.ch>
>> Cc: Sergio Gonzalez Monroy <sergio.gonzalez.monroy at intel.com>
>> ---
>>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c | 2 --
>>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
>> 
>> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
>>b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
>> index f7ef82554..fd320d87d 100644
>> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
>> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
>> @@ -336,8 +336,6 @@ igbuio_pci_open(struct uio_info *info, struct inode
>>*inode)
>>  	struct pci_dev *dev = udev->pdev;
>>  	int err;
>>  
>> -	pci_reset_function(dev);
>> -
>>  	/* set bus master, which was cleared by the reset function */
>>  	pci_set_master(dev);
>>  
>> 
>