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Subject: [Bug 25] Ixgbe driver sets TDH register after
	TXDCTL.ENABLE is set
Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2018 12:59:49 +0000
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https://dpdk.org/tracker/show_bug.cgi?id=3D25

            Bug ID: 25
           Summary: Ixgbe driver sets TDH register after TXDCTL.ENABLE is
                    set
           Product: DPDK
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: CONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: Normal
         Component: ethdev
          Assignee: dev@dpdk.org
          Reporter: solal.pirelli@gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

The Intel 82599 data sheet
(https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/datasheets/82=
599-10-gbe-controller-datasheet.pdf,
=C2=A78.2.3.9.8) states that "The only time that software should write to [=
the TDH]
register is after a reset (hardware reset or CTRL.RST) and before enabling =
the
transmit function (TXDCTL.ENABLE). If software were to write to this regist=
er
while the transmit function was enabled, the on-chip descriptor buffers mig=
ht
be invalidated and the hardware could become confused".

The ixgbe driver's ixgbe_dev_tx_queue_start function
(http://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c?h=3Dv18.02=
#n5148)
first enables TXDCTL.ENABLE, then performs some admirable efforts to make s=
ure
it is truly enabled, and then changes TDH, ensuring that hardware confusion=
 can
happen.

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