On 19/06/2024 17:00, David Marchand wrote:
> Querying link status may get delayed for an undeterministic (long) time
> with mlx5 ports. This is a consequence of the mlx5 driver calling ethtool
> kernel API and getting stuck on the kernel RTNL lock while some other
> operation is in progress under this lock.
> 
> One impact for long link status query is that it is called under the bond
> lock taken in write mode periodically in bond_run().
> In parallel, datapath threads may block requesting to read bonding related
> info (like for example in bond_check_admissibility()).
> 
> The LSC interrupt mode is available with many DPDK drivers and is used by
> default with testpmd.
> 
> It seems safe enough to switch on this feature by default in OVS.
> We keep the per interface option to disable this feature in case of an
> unforeseen bug.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Marchand <[email protected]>
> Reviewed-by: Robin Jarry <[email protected]>
> Acked-by: Mike Pattrick <[email protected]>
> ---

LGTM

Acked-by: Kevin Traynor <[email protected]>

Re backporting. I'm not so keen on changing a default when someone
upgrades from 3.3.1 -> 3.3.2 etc. The feature is already available so
anyone who needs it can enable it.

Perhaps a separate small 'known issue' type of doc patch for phy.rst
could be backported to guide a user if they want to enable it ?

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