Acked-by: Jeff Guo <jia....@intel.com>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yang, SteveX <stevex.y...@intel.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 15, 2020 2:46 PM
> To: dev@dpdk.org
> Cc: Zhao1, Wei <wei.zh...@intel.com>; Guo, Jia <jia....@intel.com>; Yang,
> Qiming <qiming.y...@intel.com>; Yang, SteveX <stevex.y...@intel.com>
> Subject: [PATCH v3] net/ixgbe: fix vf reset hw error handling
>
> When start a VF with no initial MAC address assigned by the underlying Host
> PF driver, just reuse the MAC address assigned when VF is initializing.
>
> Fixes: f69166c9a3c9 ("net/ixgbe: fix reset error handling")
>
> Signed-off-by: SteveX Yang <stevex.y...@intel.com>
> ---
> v3:
> * update commit and inline comment
> v2:
> * update comment
> ---
> drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 8 +++++++-
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> index d9582473a..d68f090fd 100644
> --- a/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> +++ b/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c
> @@ -5322,10 +5322,16 @@ ixgbevf_dev_start(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
> ixgbe_dev_wait_setup_link_complete(dev, 0);
>
> err = hw->mac.ops.reset_hw(hw);
> - if (err) {
> +
> + /**
> + * In this case, reuses the MAC address assigned by VF
> + * initialization.
> + */
> + if (err != IXGBE_SUCCESS && err !=
> IXGBE_ERR_INVALID_MAC_ADDR) {
> PMD_INIT_LOG(ERR, "Unable to reset vf hardware (%d)",
> err);
> return err;
> }
> +
> hw->mac.get_link_status = true;
>
> /* negotiate mailbox API version to use with the PF. */
> --
> 2.17.1
