Re: [PATCH] igb_uio: remove PCI reset during uio device open

[Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 2017-09-19 at 15:54 +0530, Shijith Thotton wrote:
> Issuing reset during uio device open caused PMD init failure for some
> NIC VFs (i40, ixgbe, qede) in host. So this initial reset is removed.
> Bus master enable is kept as part of open since we disable it in uio
> device release.
> 
> Fixes: b58eedfc7dd5 ("igb_uio: issue FLR during open and release of
> device file")
> Cc: stable@dpdk.org
> 
> Signed-off-by: Shijith Thotton <shijith.thotton@caviumnetworks.com>
> ---
>  lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
> b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
> index 07a19a3..a6c2996 100644
> --- a/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
> +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linuxapp/igb_uio/igb_uio.c
> @@ -179,9 +179,7 @@ struct rte_uio_pci_dev {
>  	struct rte_uio_pci_dev *udev = info->priv;
>  	struct pci_dev *dev = udev->pdev;
>  
> -	pci_reset_function(dev);
> -
> -	/* set bus master, which was cleared by the reset function
> */
> +	/* enable bus mastering on the device */
>  	pci_set_master(dev);
>  
>  	return 0;

Tested-by: Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@att.com>

Hi, we had the same issue, Chas applied and tested this patch on top of
17.08 and our QA department confirms that it fixes the problem.

-- 
Kind regards,
Luca Boccassi