[<prev] [next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]
Message-ID: <10ec2a87-5d9e-40a7-a4ea-1e50fd8109e6@dan.merillat.org>
Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2024 15:30:58 -0400
From: Dan Merillat <git@....merillat.org>
To: netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Cc: Dan Merillat <git@....merillat.org>, Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
Subject: Re: ethtool fails to read some QSFP+ modules.
Sorry, I'm not subscribed to netdev and didn't get a CC so I'm trying to follow via the web archives
and I can't see who was CC'd.
On Mon, Jul 01, 2024 at 10:28:39AM +0300, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2024 at 01:27:07PM -0400, Dan Merillat wrote:
> >
> > I was testing an older Kaiam XQX2502 40G-LR4 and ethtool -m failed with netlink error. It's treating a failure to read
> > the optional page3 data as a hard failure.
> >
> > This patch allows ethtool to read qsfp modules that don't implement the voltage/temperature alarm data.
>
> Thanks for the report and the patch. Krzysztof Olędzki reported the same
> issue earlier this year:
> https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/9e757616-0396-4573-9ea9-3cb5ef5c901a@ans.pl/
>
> Krzysztof, are you going to submit the ethtool and mlx4 patches?
>
> > From 3144fbfc08fbfb90ecda4848fc9356bde8933d4a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Dan Merillat <git@....eginity.com>
> > Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2024 13:11:51 -0400
> > Subject: [PATCH] Some qsfp modules do not support page 3
> >
> > Tested on an older Kaiam XQX2502 40G-LR4 module.
> > ethtool -m aborts with netlink error due to page 3
> > not existing on the module. Ignore the error and
> > leave map->page_03h NULL.
>
> User space only tries to read this page because the module advertised it
> as supported. It is more likely that the NIC driver does not return all
> the pages. Which driver is it?
Same as Kyrzysztof, a connectx3 board. I'm using mlx4_core/en in the stock 6.9.3 kernel.
Raw dump:
# ethtool -m enp65s0d1 raw on | hexdump -C
00000000 0d 05 00 0f 00 00 00 00 00 44 44 00 00 44 44 00 |.........DD..DD.|
00000010 00 00 00 00 00 00 30 a4 00 00 82 3b 00 00 00 00 |......0....;....|
00000020 00 00 00 10 00 11 00 31 00 00 36 ff 36 ff 36 ff |.......1..6.6.6.|
00000030 36 83 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |6...............|
00000040 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000050 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 00 00 |................|
00000060 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 1f 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000070 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
00000080 0d 80 07 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 67 00 02 00 |............g...|
00000090 00 00 00 40 4b 41 49 41 4d 20 43 4f 52 50 20 20 |...@...AM CORP |
000000a0 20 20 20 20 00 14 ed e4 58 51 58 32 35 30 32 20 | ....XQX2502 |
000000b0 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 20 31 41 66 58 05 14 46 14 | 1AfX..F.|
000000c0 00 00 00 92 4b 44 37 30 32 30 31 31 35 39 20 20 |....KD70201159 |
000000d0 20 20 20 20 31 37 30 32 30 31 30 30 08 00 00 0d | 17020100....|
000000e0 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 |................|
*
00000100
The ioctl path handles it properly when ethtool is built with --disable-netlink, since it checks the
total buffer size returned by the kernel and does not set map->page_03h if the size does not match.
Status byte 2, bit 2 is 'Upper memory flat or paged. 0x1b: Flat memory. 0x0b: Paging (at least upper
page 0x03h supported)'
SFF8636_STATUS_FLAT_MEMORY would be clearer, as page_00h[STATUS_2] & PAGE_3_PRESENT is really a
negative test.
I confirmed that status 2 is 0x00, which would indicate the module supports paged memory.
So either this cheap module is non-compliant or there's a problem in the driver/firmware for
connectx3/3pro cards. Either way, it would be better to warn about the non-compliance and still
display the optical information gathered rather than a fatal error that shows nothing. If it can
also be fixed in the mlx4_core driver to properly read page 3, that would be better, but that
will require someone with more knowledge of mellanox/nVidia internals than I have.
If anyone wants to test with a different adapter, these xqx2502 modules are dirt cheap on ebay, only $4 when
I bought mine a few weeks ago.
Powered by blists - more mailing lists