Hello Dragos,

On 8/26/24 4:06 AM, Dragos Tatulea wrote:

On 23.08.24 18:54, Carlos Bilbao wrote:

quoted

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.

According to ethtool, all my devices are running at full duplex. I assume I
can disregard this configuration output from the module then.

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While looking into how to change this option for Mellanox, I read the following
kernel code in mlx5_vnet.c:

static void mlx5_vdpa_set_config(struct vdpa_device *vdev, unsigned int offset, const void *buf,
                 unsigned int len)
{
    /* not supported */
}

I was wondering why this is the case.

TBH, I don't know why it was not added. But in general, the control VQ is the
better way as it's dynamic.

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Is there another way for me to change
these configuration settings?

The configuration is done using control VQ for most things (MTU, MAC, VQs,
etc). Make sure that you have the CTRL_VQ feature set (should be on by
default). It should appear in `vdpa mgmtdev show` and `vdpa dev config
show`.

I see that CTRL_VQ is indeed enabled. Is there any documentation on how to
use the control VQ to get/set vDPA configuration values?

Thanks,
Dragos

Thank you!
Carlos