> Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/ixgbe: fix link state timing issue on
> fiber
> ports
>
> On 05/08, Phil Yang wrote:
> >> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/ixgbe: fix link state timing issue on fiber
> >> ports
> >>
> >> With some models of fib
On 05/08, Phil Yang wrote:
>> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/ixgbe: fix link state timing issue on fiber
>> ports
>>
>> With some models of fiber ports (e.g. X520-2 device ID 0x10fb), it
>> is possible when a port is started to experience a timing issue
>> whi
> Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] net/ixgbe: fix link state timing issue on fiber
> ports
>
> With some models of fiber ports (e.g. X520-2 device ID 0x10fb), it
> is possible when a port is started to experience a timing issue
> which prevents the link from ever being ful
This issue is firstly observed with an ixgbe NIC in VPP project, which is
software switching application based on DPDK.
There's a daemon thread running in background keeping polling hardware link
status, using ixgbe_dev_link_update_share().
Once flag IXGBE_FLAG_NEED_LINK_CONFIG is set, ixgbe_dev_
With some models of fiber ports (e.g. X520-2 device ID 0x10fb), it
is possible when a port is started to experience a timing issue
which prevents the link from ever being fully set up.
In ixgbe_dev_link_update_share(), if the media type is fiber and the
link is down, a flag (IXGBE_FLAG_NEED_LINK_C
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