Re: Issues with "PCI/LINK: Report degraded links via link bandwidth notification"

[Alex G.]

On 1/28/21 5:51 PM, Sinan Kaya wrote:
> On 1/28/2021 6:39 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote:
> > AFAICT, this thread petered out with no resolution.
> >
> > If the bandwidth change notifications are important to somebody,
> > please speak up, preferably with a patch that makes the notifications
> > disabled by default and adds a parameter to enable them (or some other
> > strategy that makes sense).
> >
> > I think these are potentially useful, so I don't really want to just
> > revert them, but if nobody thinks these are important enough to fix,
> > that's a possibility.
>
> Hide behind debug or expert option by default? or even mark it as BROKEN
> until someone fixes it?
Instead of making it a config option, wouldn't it be better as a kernel 
parameter? People encountering this seem quite competent in passing 
kernel arguments, so having a "pcie_bw_notification=off" would solve 
their problems.

As far as marking this as broken, I've seen no conclusive evidence of to 
tell if its a sw bug or actual hardware problem. Could we have a sysfs 
to disable this on a per-downstream-port basis?

e.g.
    echo 0 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:04.0/bw_notification_enabled

This probably won't be ideal if there are many devices downtraining 
their links ad-hoc. At worst we'd have a way to silence those messages 
if we do encounter such devices.

Alex