On Tue, Oct 06, 2026 at 12:38:48PM +0200, Burakov, Anatoly wrote:
> On 9/27/2026 7:52 PM, Sandeep Penigalapati wrote:
> > E610 VFs report a wrong link speed (e.g. 10G while the PF is at 1G)
> > because the speed is decoded from the VFLINKS register, which E610 does
> > not use for VF link state.
> >
> > Commit adbd71030575 ("net/ixgbe/base: fix link status for E610") added a
> > mailbox operation to fetch the link state from the PF and bumped the VF
> > mailbox API to 1.6, but the PMD never used it: ixgbevf_negotiate_api()
> > caps the API at 1.3 and ixgbevf_check_link() reads VFLINKS instead of the
> > base helper.
> >
> > Negotiate the mailbox API up to 1.6 and query the PF for the link state
> > on E610 VFs. Other MAC types are unchanged.
> >
> > Fixes: adbd71030575 ("net/ixgbe/base: fix link status for E610")
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Signed-off-by: Sandeep Penigalapati <[email protected]>
> > ---
>
> Acked-by: Anatoly Burakov <[email protected]>
>
Applied to dpdk-next-net-intel.
thanks,
/Bruce
