On Mon, Aug 26, 2024 at 11:06:09AM +0200, Dragos Tatulea wrote:

On 23.08.24 18:54, Carlos Bilbao wrote:

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Hello,

I'm debugging my vDPA setup, and when using ioctl to retrieve the
configuration, I noticed that it's running in half duplex mode:

Configuration data (24 bytes):
  MAC address: (Mac address)
  Status: 0x0001
  Max virtqueue pairs: 8
  MTU: 1500
  Speed: 0 Mb
  Duplex: Half Duplex
  RSS max key size: 0
  RSS max indirection table length: 0
  Supported hash types: 0x00000000

I believe this might be contributing to the underperformance of vDPA.

mlx5_vdpa vDPA devicess currently do not support the VIRTIO_NET_F_SPEED_DUPLEX
feature which reports speed and duplex. You can check the state on the
PF.

Then it should probably report DUPLEX_UNKNOWN.

The speed of 0 also suggests SPEED_UNKNOWN is not being returned. So
this just looks buggy in general.

     Andrew