[Intel-wired-lan] Bonding problem on Intel X710 hardware

[Sven Anders]

Hello!

Was anybody able to reproduce the problem?
Do you need assistance or further information?

Regards
  Sven

Am 30.05.22 um 17:53 schrieb Sven Anders:
>>>> Hello!
>>>>
>>>> This is a follow up to my question. I did not hear anything so far, but I tried
>>>> to find some some information meanwhile.
>>>>
>>>> I've got a guess from somebody, that the error message "Error I40E_AQ_RC_EINVAL
>>>> adding RX filters on PF, promiscuous mode forced on" maybe triggered, because
>>>> I'm hitting a limit here.
>>
>> Yes, typically this is a response from our firmware that a table is full in hardware, and I'm guessing that you might be running into a filter limit 
>> due to using vlans?
> 
> That's what I suspect, but I did know the hardware and firmware insufficiently
> to be sure.
> What I'm wondering is: Why this is only triggered if I toggle the "ntuples support"
> and not earlier when setting up the interface?
> 
>>>> Data packets are only received sporadically. If I run the same test
>>>> with only one slave port, it works without problems.
>>
>> And there are no counters going up in ethtool -S when you receive/drop packets?
> 
> I'm not sure here. I tried to inspect the counters and it seems that the counters
> are going up slower in this case, but it's difficult to say, because there is
> some "noise" on the line and I do not have direct access to the hardware at the
> moment.
> 
> If you need any further information or tests, just contact me.

Regards
    Sven Anders
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