On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Stefan Assmann <sassmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 19.03.2015 15:04, jacob jacob wrote: >> Hi Stefan, >> have you been able to get PCI passthrough working without any issues >> after the upgrade? > > My XL710 fails to transfer regular TCP traffic (netperf). If that works > for you then you're already one step ahead of me. Afraid I can't help > you there. I have data transfer working when trying the test runs on the host itself. Are you seeing problems when directly trying the TCP traffic from the host itself? The issues that i am seeing are specific to the case when the devices are passed via PCI passthrough into the VM. Any ideas whether this would be a kvm/qemu or i40e driver issue? (Updating to the latest firmware and using latest i40e driver didn't seem to help.) > > Stefan > >> Thanks >> Jacob >> >> On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Stefan Assmann <sassmann@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> On 18.03.2015 23:06, Shannon Nelson wrote: >>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Shannon Nelson >>>> <shannon.nelson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:40 AM, jacob jacob <opstkusr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Bandan Das <bsd@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Actually, Stefan suggests that support for this card is still sketchy >>>>>>> and your best bet is to try out net-next >>>>>>> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Also, could you please post more information about your hardware setup >>>>>>> (chipset/processor/firmware version on the card etc) ? >>>>>> >>>>>> Host CPU : Model name: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v2 @ 2.60GHz >>>>>> >>>>>> Manufacturer Part Number: XL710QDA1BLK >>>>>> Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller XL710 for >>>>>> 40GbE QSFP+ (rev 01) >>>>>> #ethtool -i enp9s0 >>>>>> driver: i40e >>>>>> version: 1.2.6-k >>>>>> firmware-version: f4.22 a1.1 n04.24 e800013fd >>>>>> bus-info: 0000:09:00.0 >>>>>> supports-statistics: yes >>>>>> supports-test: yes >>>>>> supports-eeprom-access: yes >>>>>> supports-register-dump: yes >>>>>> supports-priv-flags: no >>>>>> >>>> >>>> Jacob, >>>> >>>> It looks like you're using a NIC with the e800013fd firmware from last >>>> summer, and from a separate message that you saw these issues with >>>> both the 1.2.2-k and the 1.2.37 version drivers. I suggest the next >>>> step would be to update the NIC firmware as there are some performance >>>> and stability updates available that deal with similar issues. Please >>>> see the Intel Networking support webpage at >>>> https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24769 and look for the >>>> NVMUpdatePackage.zip. This should take care of several of the things >>>> Stefan might describe as "sketchy" :-). >>> >>> Interesting, the following might explain why my XL710 feels a bit >>> sketchy then. ;-) >>> # ethtool -i p4p1 >>> driver: i40e >>> version: 1.2.37-k >>> firmware-version: f4.22.26225 a1.1 n4.24 e12ef >>> Looks like the firmware on this NIC is even older. >>> >>> I tried to update the firmware with nvmupdate64e and the first thing I >>> noticed is that you cannot update the firmware even with todays linux >>> git. The tool errors out because it cannot access the NVM. Only with a >>> recent net-next kernel I was able to update the firmware. >>> ethtool -i p4p1 >>> driver: i40e >>> version: 1.2.37-k >>> firmware-version: f4.33.31377 a1.2 n4.42 e1932 >>> >>> However during the update I got a lot of errors in dmesg. >>> [ 301.796664] i40e 0000:82:00.0: ARQ Error: Unknown event 0x0702 received >>> [ 301.893933] i40e 0000:82:00.0: ARQ Error: Unknown event 0x0703 received >>> [ 302.005223] i40e 0000:82:00.0: ARQ Error: Unknown event 0x0703 received >>> [...] >>> [ 387.884635] i40e 0000:82:00.0: ARQ Error: Unknown event 0x0703 received >>> [ 387.896862] i40e 0000:82:00.0: ARQ Overflow Error detected >>> [ 387.902995] i40e 0000:82:00.0: ARQ Error: Unknown event 0x0703 received >>> [...] >>> [ 391.583799] i40e 0000:82:00.0: NVMUpdate write failed err=-53 status=0x0 errno=-16 module=70 offset=0x0 size=2 >>> [ 391.714217] i40e 0000:82:00.0: NVMUpdate write failed err=-53 status=0x0 errno=-16 module=70 offset=0x0 size=2 >>> [ 391.842656] i40e 0000:82:00.0: NVMUpdate write failed err=-53 status=0x0 errno=-16 module=70 offset=0x0 size=2 >>> [ 391.973080] i40e 0000:82:00.0: NVMUpdate write failed err=-53 status=0x0 errno=-16 module=70 offset=0x0 size=2 >>> [ 392.107586] i40e 0000:82:00.0: NVMUpdate write failed err=-53 status=0x0 errno=-16 module=70 offset=0x0 size=2 >>> [ 392.244140] i40e 0000:82:00.0: NVMUpdate write failed err=-53 status=0x0 errno=-16 module=70 offset=0x0 size=2 >>> [ 392.373966] i40e 0000:82:00.0: ARQ Error: Unknown event 0x0703 received >>> >>> Not sure if that flash was actually successful or not. >>> >>> Stefan > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
