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Bug 1805140

Summary: Remove mlx{4,5} glue library
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Reporter: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli>
Component: dpdkAssignee: Timothy Redaelli <tredaelli>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Jean-Tsung Hsiao <jhsiao>
Severity: unspecified Docs Contact:
Priority: unspecified    
Version: 8.4CC: ctrautma, fbaudin, ovs-qe
Target Milestone: rcFlags: pm-rhel: mirror+
Target Release: 8.0   
Hardware: Unspecified   
OS: Unspecified   
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Fixed In Version: dpdk-19.11-4.el8 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Last Closed: 2020-04-28 16:04:08 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Timothy Redaelli 2020-02-20 11:01:24 UTC
Since RHEL8 includes the correct rdma-core/libibverbs version the mlx{4,5} glue library is not needed anymore.

This means that libibverbs / rdma-core are added (automatic) dependencies, but this also means the user didn't need to manually install them (and to reboot).
Moreover it'll also remove some warnings (for example bz#1626936).

Comment 4 Jean-Tsung Hsiao 2020-02-20 16:50:08 UTC
The fix has been verified:

testpmd> show port stats all

  ######################## NIC statistics for port 0  ########################
  RX-packets: 133100840  RX-missed: 0          RX-bytes:  7986050400
  RX-errors: 0
  RX-nombuf:  0         
  TX-packets: 0          TX-errors: 0          TX-bytes:  0

  Throughput (since last show)
  Rx-pps:     22593445          Rx-bps:  10844853872
  Tx-pps:            0          Tx-bps:            0
  ############################################################################

  ######################## NIC statistics for port 1  ########################
  RX-packets: 0          RX-missed: 0          RX-bytes:  0
  RX-errors: 0
  RX-nombuf:  0         
  TX-packets: 133107355  TX-errors: 0          TX-bytes:  7986441300

  Throughput (since last show)
  Rx-pps:            0          Rx-bps:            0
  Tx-pps:     22593261          Tx-bps:  10844765720
  ############################################################################
testpmd> quit
Telling cores to stop...
Waiting for lcores to finish...

  ------- Forward Stats for RX Port= 0/Queue= 0 -> TX Port= 1/Queue= 0 -------
  RX-packets: 189008177      TX-packets: 189008177      TX-dropped: 0             

  ------- Forward Stats for RX Port= 0/Queue= 1 -> TX Port= 1/Queue= 1 -------
  RX-packets: 185278877      TX-packets: 185278877      TX-dropped: 0             

  ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 0  ----------------------
  RX-packets: 374287054      RX-dropped: 0             RX-total: 374287054
  TX-packets: 0              TX-dropped: 0             TX-total: 0
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 1  ----------------------
  RX-packets: 0              RX-dropped: 0             RX-total: 0
  TX-packets: 374287054      TX-dropped: 0             TX-total: 374287054
  ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

  +++++++++++++++ Accumulated forward statistics for all ports+++++++++++++++
  RX-packets: 374287054      RX-dropped: 0             RX-total: 374287054
  TX-packets: 374287054      TX-dropped: 0             TX-total: 374287054
  ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Done.

Stopping port 0...
Stopping ports...
Done

Stopping port 1...
Stopping ports...
Done

Shutting down port 0...
Closing ports...
Done

Shutting down port 1...
Closing ports...
Done

Bye...

[root@netqe24 ~]# rpm -q dpdk
dpdk-19.11-4.el8.x86_64
[root@netqe24 ~]# uname -r
4.18.0-167.el8.x86_64
[root@netqe24 ~]#

Comment 6 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 16:04:08 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1735