On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 10:53 AM, Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 7:13 AM, jacob jacob <opstkusr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> After update to latest firmware and using version 1.2.37 of i40e >> driver, things are looking better with PCI passthrough. >> >> ]# ethtool -i eth3 >> driver: i40e >> version: 1.2.37 >> firmware-version: f4.33.31377 a1.2 n4.42 e1930 >> bus-info: 0000:00:07.0 >> supports-statistics: yes >> supports-test: yes >> supports-eeprom-access: yes >> supports-register-dump: yes >> supports-priv-flags: yes > > I'm glad the updates helped as we expected. > >> >> There are still issues running dpdk 1.8.0 from the VM using the pci >> passthrough devices and looks like it puts the devices in a bad state. >> i40e driver will not bind after this happens and a host reboot is >> required to recover. > > Did you make sure to unbind the i40e device from pci-stub after you > were done with using it in the VM? The issue is running dpdk from within the vm itself. Is it possible that the igb_uio driver needs additional updates/functionality to be at parity with 1.2.37 version of i40e driver? > >> I'll post further updates as i make progress. >> Thanks for all the help. >> > > Good luck, > sln -- 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
