Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: suppress repeated error messages about Max BW

["Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@broadcom.com>]

On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 08:13 -0700, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> On 08/15/2011 02:33 PM, Eilon Greenstein wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-08-15 at 04:59 -0700, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> >> and bnx2x_init_vn_minmax() calls bnx2x_extract_max_cfg() on the given
> >> VN, so it seems that the warning can be produced for a non-current VN.
> >
> > You are right, only one function (the PMF) will call this code for all
> > functions. But I suspect that if you have zero values, you will have
> > them for all VNs - is that the case?
> 
> A tester reported getting only these 4 messages with the patch applied:
> 
> [bnx2x_extract_max_cfg:1074(eth4)]Illegal configuration detected for Max 
> BW on vn 2 - using 100 instead
> [bnx2x_extract_max_cfg:1074(eth5)]Illegal configuration detected for Max 
> BW on vn 2 - using 100 instead
> [bnx2x_extract_max_cfg:1074(eth6)]Illegal configuration detected for Max 
> BW on vn 3 - using 100 instead
> [bnx2x_extract_max_cfg:1074(eth7)]Illegal configuration detected for Max 
> BW on vn 3 - using 100 instead
> 
> This suggests that VNs 0 and 1 had non-zero Max BW configuration.

Michal - this is a great point of data! It helped me finding a bug in
that code - the code is not suitable for 4 port devices, it always
assumes 4 VN per PCI function, while in 4 port devices there are only 2
VN per PCI function. I assume that you are seeing this problem on a
57800 with 2x10G + 2x1G - and the 1G devices are in single function mode
and therefore you are seeing this error message. I will send a patch to
fix the problem on 4 port devices soon (after testing it for a while) -
please confirm that you are seeing this issue on 2x10G+2x1G 57800
device.

Now it all makes sense to me - it’s not just misconfigured board
workaround, this is a real issue :)

Thanks for helping in identifying it!
Eilon