>-----Original Message----- >From: Jay Vosburgh [mailto:jay.vosbu...@canonical.com] >Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2016 4:37 PM >To: Tantilov, Emil S >Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; go...@cumulusnetworks.com; zhuyj; >j...@mellanox.com >Subject: Re: bonding reports interface up with 0 Mbps > >Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosbu...@canonical.com> wrote: >[...] >> Thinking about the trace again... Emil: what happens in the >>trace before this? Is there ever a call to the ixgbe_get_settings? >>Does a NETDEV_UP or NETDEV_CHANGE event ever hit the bond_netdev_event >>function? > > Emil kindly sent me the trace offline, and I think I see what's >going on. It looks like the sequence of events is: > >bond_enslave -> > bond_update_speed_duplex (device is down, thus DUPLEX/SPEED_UNKNOWN) > [ do rest of enslavement, start miimon periodic work ] > > [ time passes, device goes carrier up ] > >ixgbe_service_task: eth1: NIC Link is Up 10 Gbps -> > netif_carrier_on (arranges for NETDEV_CHANGE notifier out of line) > > [ a few microseconds later ] > >bond_mii_monitor -> > bond_check_dev_link (now is carrier up) > bond_miimon_commit -> (emits "0 Mbps full duplex" message) > bond_lower_state_changed -> > bond_netdev_event (NETDEV_CHANGELOWERSTATE, is ignored) > bond_3ad_handle_link_change (sees DUPLEX/SPEED_UNKNOWN) > > [ a few microseconds later, in response to ixgbe's netif_carrier_on ] > >notifier_call_chain -> > bond_netdev_event NETDEV_CHANGE -> > bond_update_speed_duplex (sees correct SPEED_10000/FULL) -> > bond_3ad_adapter_speed_duplex_changed (updates 802.3ad) > > Basically, the race is that the periodic bond_mii_monitor is >squeezing in between the link going up and bonding's update of the speed >and duplex in response to the NETDEV_CHANGE triggered by the driver's >netif_carrier_on call. bonding ends up using the stale duplex and speed >information obtained at enslavement time. > > I think that, nowadays, the initial speed and duplex will pretty >much always be UNKNOWN, at least for real Ethernet devices, because it >will take longer to autoneg than the time between the dev_open and >bond_update_speed_duplex calls in bond_enslave. > > Adding a case to bond_netdev_event for CHANGELOWERSTATE works >because it's a synchronous call from bonding. For purposes of fixing >this, it's more or less equivalent to calling bond_update_speed_duplex >from bond_miimon_commit (which is part of a test patch I posted earlier >today). > > If the above analysis is correct, then I would expect this patch >to make the problem go away: > >diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c >b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c >index 56b560558884..cabaeb61333d 100644 >--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c >+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c >@@ -2127,6 +2127,7 @@ static void bond_miimon_commit(struct bonding *bond) > continue; > > case BOND_LINK_UP: >+ bond_update_speed_duplex(slave); > bond_set_slave_link_state(slave, BOND_LINK_UP, > BOND_SLAVE_NOTIFY_NOW); > slave->last_link_up = jiffies; > > > Emil, can you give just the above a test?
Sure I'll fire it up. Thanks, Emil
