Re: [Intel-wired-lan] i40e XDP program stops transmitting after link down/up

[Seth Forshee <sforshee@kernel.org>]

On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 05:14:23PM +0100, Paul Menzel wrote:
> Dear Seth,
> 
> 
> Thank you for bring this up.
> 
> Am 30.01.24 um 15:17 schrieb Seth Forshee:
> > I got a inquiry from a colleague about a behavior he's seeing with i40e
> > but not with other NICs. The interfaces are bonded with a XDP
> > load-balancer program attached to them. After 'ip link set ethX down; ip
> > link set ethX up' on one of the interfaces the XDP program on that
> > interface is no longer transmitting packets. He found that tx starts
> > again after running 'sudo ethtool -t ethX'.
> > 
> > There's a 'i40e 0000:d8:00.1: VSI seid 391 XDP Tx ring 0 disable
> > timeout' message in dmesg when disabling the interface. I've included
> > the relevant portions from dmesg below.
> > 
> > This was first observed with a 6.1 kernel, but we've confirmed that the
> > behavior is the same in 6.7. I realize the firmware is pretty old, so
> > far our attempts to update the NVM have failed.
> 
> Does that mean, the problem didn’t happen before Linux 6.1? If so, if you
> have the reproducer and the time, bisecting the issue is normally the
> fastest way to solve the issue.

No, sorry, I should have worded that better. I meant that they were
using 6.1 when they noticed the issue, not that kernels before 6.1 did
not have that issue. We've also tried a 5.15 kernel build now and still
see the issue there, we haven't tested anything older than that.

Thanks,
Seth