On Mon, 2019-01-07 at 21:01 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > > > In a very cryptic way that requires manual parsing using non-public > > docs sadly but yes. From the look of it, it's a completion timeout. > > > > Looks to me like we don't get a response to a config space access > > during the change of D state. I don't know if it's the write of the D3 > > state itself or the read back though (it's probably detected on the > > read back or a subsequent read, but that doesn't tell me which specific > > one failed). > > If it is just one card doing it (again, check you have latest > firmware) I wonder if it is a sketchy PCI-E electrical link that is > causing a long re-training cycle? Can you tell if the PCI-E link is > permanently gone or does it eventually return? No, it's 100% reproducable on systems with that specific card model, not card instance, and maybe different systems/cards as well, I'll let David & Alexey comment further on that. > Does the card work in Gen 3 when it starts? Is there any indication of > PCI-E link errors? Nope. > Everytime or sometimes? > > POWER 8 firmware is good? If the link does eventually come back, is > the POWER8's D3 resumption timeout long enough? > > If this doesn't lead to an obvious conclusion you'll probably need to > connect to IBM's Mellanox support team to get more information from > the card side. We are IBM :-) So far, it seems to be that the card is doing something not quite right, but we don't know what. We might need to engage Mellanox themselves. Cheers, Ben.