no connectivity on PF with Intel 82599/SR-IOV/OVS

[Dmitry N.]

Hello all.

I'm having an issue with SR-IOV on 82599 NIC in lab env. Basically
what I have is Ubuntu 12.04 with a set of vanilla kernels and Open
vSwitch.

A simplified scheme for ovs setup:
br-mgmt -> [vlan 102]br-eth0 -> eth0 -> fabric

When VFs are disabled, connectivity works fine. However when at least
one VF is enabled, traffic just doesn't go any further than br-eth0.
Oddly enough, it acts this way only if VLAN is configured on br-eth0
via OVS. When I try to configure VLAN with ip link, it works just
fine.

It's not an udev issue because re-adding eth0 to br-eth0 doesn't help.
I've tried different OVS and ixgbe/ixgbevf versions against different
kernel versions and ruled out issues with OVS and ixgbe.

This could be a kernel bug.

Kernel versions I've tried:
3.11.0 works fine
3.12.24 has this issue
3.14.23 has this issue
3.15.10 has this issue
3.16.7 and later kernels: the situation is opposite: when VFs are
disabled, there is no connectivity on PF; as soon as at leas 1 VF is
enabled, connectivity appears.

OVS versions:
2.3.0 for user space
2.3.0 (and kernel native where 2.3.0 is not supported - starting with
3.15.x) for kernel space

ixgbe:
latest from Intel website (3.22.3)

ixgbevf:
latest from Intel website (2.15.3)

Any suggestions? Thanks.
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