Re: [Qemu-devel] PCI passthrough of 40G ethernet interface (Openstack/KVM)

[jacob jacob]

Hi Stefan,
have you been able to get PCI passthrough working without any issues
after the upgrade?
Thanks
Jacob

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Stefan Assmann <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 18.03.2015 23:06, Shannon Nelson wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 3:01 PM, Shannon Nelson
>> <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 8:40 AM, jacob jacob <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 18, 2015 at 11:24 AM, Bandan Das <address@hidden> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Actually, Stefan suggests that support for this card is still sketchy
>>>>> and your best bet is to try out net-next
>>>>> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next.git
>>>>>
>>>>> Also, could you please post more information about your hardware setup
>>>>> (chipset/processor/firmware version on the card etc) ?
>>>>
>>>> Host CPU : Model name:            Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2630 v2 @ 2.60GHz
>>>>
>>>> Manufacturer Part Number:  XL710QDA1BLK
>>>> Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Ethernet Controller XL710 for
>>>> 40GbE QSFP+ (rev 01)
>>>>  #ethtool -i enp9s0
>>>> driver: i40e
>>>> version: 1.2.6-k
>>>> firmware-version: f4.22 a1.1 n04.24 e800013fd
>>>> bus-info: 0000:09:00.0
>>>> supports-statistics: yes
>>>> supports-test: yes
>>>> supports-eeprom-access: yes
>>>> supports-register-dump: yes
>>>> supports-priv-flags: no
>>>>
>>
>> Jacob,
>>
>> It looks like you're using a NIC with the e800013fd firmware from last
>> summer, and from a separate message that you saw these issues with
>> both the 1.2.2-k and the 1.2.37 version drivers.  I suggest the next
>> step would be to update the NIC firmware as there are some performance
>> and stability updates available that deal with similar issues.  Please
>> see the Intel Networking support webpage at
>> https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/24769 and look for the
>> NVMUpdatePackage.zip.  This should take care of several of the things
>> Stefan might describe as "sketchy" :-).
>
> Interesting, the following might explain why my XL710 feels a bit
> sketchy then. ;-)
> # ethtool -i p4p1
> driver: i40e
> version: 1.2.37-k
> firmware-version: f4.22.26225 a1.1 n4.24 e12ef
> Looks like the firmware on this NIC is even older.
>
> I tried to update the firmware with nvmupdate64e and the first thing I
> noticed is that you cannot update the firmware even with todays linux
> git. The tool errors out because it cannot access the NVM. Only with a
> recent net-next kernel I was able to update the firmware.
> ethtool -i p4p1
> driver: i40e
> version: 1.2.37-k
> firmware-version: f4.33.31377 a1.2 n4.42 e1932
>
> However during the update I got a lot of errors in dmesg.
> [  301.796664] i40e 0000:82:00.0: ARQ Error: Unknown event 0x0702 received
> [  301.893933] i40e 0000:82:00.0: ARQ Error: Unknown event 0x0703 received
> [  302.005223] i40e 0000:82:00.0: ARQ Error: Unknown event 0x0703 received
> [...]
> [  387.884635] i40e 0000:82:00.0: ARQ Error: Unknown event 0x0703 received
> [  387.896862] i40e 0000:82:00.0: ARQ Overflow Error detected
> [  387.902995] i40e 0000:82:00.0: ARQ Error: Unknown event 0x0703 received
> [...]
> [  391.583799] i40e 0000:82:00.0: NVMUpdate write failed err=-53 status=0x0 
> errno=-16 module=70 offset=0x0 size=2
> [  391.714217] i40e 0000:82:00.0: NVMUpdate write failed err=-53 status=0x0 
> errno=-16 module=70 offset=0x0 size=2
> [  391.842656] i40e 0000:82:00.0: NVMUpdate write failed err=-53 status=0x0 
> errno=-16 module=70 offset=0x0 size=2
> [  391.973080] i40e 0000:82:00.0: NVMUpdate write failed err=-53 status=0x0 
> errno=-16 module=70 offset=0x0 size=2
> [  392.107586] i40e 0000:82:00.0: NVMUpdate write failed err=-53 status=0x0 
> errno=-16 module=70 offset=0x0 size=2
> [  392.244140] i40e 0000:82:00.0: NVMUpdate write failed err=-53 status=0x0 
> errno=-16 module=70 offset=0x0 size=2
> [  392.373966] i40e 0000:82:00.0: ARQ Error: Unknown event 0x0703 received
>
> Not sure if that flash was actually successful or not.
>
>   Stefan