Public bug reported:
[Impact]
* Support for Solarflare X2542 network adapter
(Medford2 / SFC9250) in the sfc driver.
* This network adapter is present on recent hardware,
at least HP 2019 and Dell PowerEdge R740xd systems.
* On recent-hardware deployments that would rather use
the Bionic LTS / GA supported kernel and cannot move
to HWE kernels this adapter is non functional at all.
[Test Case]
* The X2542 adapter has been exercised with iperf3 and nc
across 2 hosts on 25G link speed w/ MTUs 1400/1500/9000
on both directions, for 1 week.
Its performance is on par with the Cosmic 4.18 kernel
(which contains all these patches) and the out-of-tree
driver from the vendor.
* The 7000 series adapter (for regression testing an old model,
supported previously) has been exercised with iperf and netperf
(TCP_STREAM, UDP_STREAM, TCP_RR, UDP_RR, and TCP_CRR) in one
host (client/server in different adapter ports isolated with
network namespaces, so traffic goes through the network switch),
on 10G link speed on MTUs 1500/9000, for 1 weekend.
No regressions observed between the original and test kernels.
[Regression Potential]
* The patchset touches a lot of the sfc driver, so the potential
for regression definitely exists. It has been tested on other
adapter which uses the old code, and no regressions were found.
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Invalid
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided
Assignee: Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)
Status: In Progress
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Invalid
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Disco)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Invalid
** Affects: linux (Ubuntu Eoan)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Invalid
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Bionic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Eoan)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: linux (Ubuntu Disco)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Bionic)
Status: New => In Progress
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Bionic)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Mauricio Faria de Oliveira (mfo)
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Cosmic)
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Disco)
Status: New => Invalid
** Changed in: linux (Ubuntu Eoan)
Status: New => Invalid
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Bionic: support for Solarflare X2542 network adapter (sfc driver)
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