Re: [PATCHv2] selftests: net: devlink_port_split.py: skip test if no suitable device available

From: Po-Hsu Lin
Date: Thu Mar 09 2023 - 10:44:59 EST


On Thu, Mar 9, 2023 at 2:24 AM Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 03:37:41PM CET, po-hsu.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 7:41 PM Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Wed, Mar 08, 2023 at 11:21:57AM CET, po-hsu.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> >On Wed, Mar 8, 2023 at 5:31 PM Jiri Pirko <jiri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Tue, Mar 07, 2023 at 04:00:30PM CET, po-hsu.lin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >> >> >The `devlink -j port show` command output may not contain the "flavour"
> >> >> >key, an example from s390x LPAR with Ubuntu 22.10 (5.19.0-37-generic),
> >> >> >iproute2-5.15.0:
> >> >> > {"port":{"pci/0001:00:00.0/1":{"type":"eth","netdev":"ens301"},
> >> >> > "pci/0001:00:00.0/2":{"type":"eth","netdev":"ens301d1"},
> >> >> > "pci/0002:00:00.0/1":{"type":"eth","netdev":"ens317"},
> >> >> > "pci/0002:00:00.0/2":{"type":"eth","netdev":"ens317d1"}}}
> >> >>
> >> >> As Jakub wrote, this is odd. Could you debug if kernel sends the flavour
> >> >> attr and if not why? Also, could you try with most recent kernel?
> >> >
> >> >I did a quick check on another s390x LPAR instance which is running
> >> >with Ubuntu 23.04 (6.1.0-16-generic) iproute2-6.1.0, there is still no
> >> >"flavour" attribute.
> >> >$ devlink port show
> >> >pci/0001:00:00.0/1: type eth netdev ens301
> >> >pci/0001:00:00.0/2: type eth netdev ens301d1
> >> >pci/0002:00:00.0/1: type eth netdev ens317
> >> >pci/0002:00:00.0/2: type eth netdev ens317d1
> >> >
> >> >The behaviour didn't change with iproute2 built from source [1]
> >>
> >> Could you paste output of "devlink dev info"?
> >> Looks like something might be wrong in the kernel devlink/driver code.
> >>
> >The `devlink dev info` output is empty. The following output is from
> >that Ubuntu 23.04 s390x LPAR, run as root:
> ># devlink dev show
> >pci/0001:00:00.0
> >pci/0002:00:00.0
> ># devlink dev show pci/0001:00:00.0
> >pci/0001:00:00.0
> ># devlink dev info
> ># devlink dev info pci/0001:00:00.0
>
> Interesting, could you try ethtool -i to get the driver name?
>
Hi,

Here you go:
$ ethtool -i ens301
driver: mlx4_en
version: 4.0-0
firmware-version: 2.35.5100
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0001:00:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: yes

$ ethtool -i ens317
driver: mlx4_en
version: 4.0-0
firmware-version: 2.35.5100
expansion-rom-version:
bus-info: 0002:00:00.0
supports-statistics: yes
supports-test: yes
supports-eeprom-access: no
supports-register-dump: no
supports-priv-flags: yes

HTH


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> >kernel answers: Operation not supported
> >
> >>