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This behavior is mixed between what should be handled by the application
and what is under PMD responsibility.
According to DPDK API:
- link_update() should only query the link status [1]
- link_set_{up,down}() should only set the link to the according status [1]
- dev_{start,stop}() should enable/disable traffic reception/emission [2]
On this PMD, the link status is retrieved from the net device associated
owned by the Linux Kernel, it does not means that even when this interface
is down, the PMD cannot send/receive traffic from the NIC those two
information are unrelated, until the physical port is active and has a
link, the PMD can receive/send traffic on the wire.
According to DPDK API, calling the rte_eth_dev_start() even when the Linux
interface link is down is then possible and allowed, as the traffic will
flow between the DPDK application and the Physical port.
This also means that a synchronization between the Linux interface and the
DPDK application remains under the DPDK application responsibility.
To handle such synchronization the application should behave as the
following scheme, to start:
rte_eth_get_link(port_id, &link);
if (link.link_status == ETH_DOWN)
rte_eth_dev_set_link_up(port_id);
rte_eth_dev_start(port_id);
Taking in account the possible returned values for each function.
and to stop:
rte_eth_dev_stop(port_id);
rte_eth_dev_set_link_down(port_id);
The application should also set the LSC interrupt callbacks to catch and
behave accordingly when the administrator set the Linux device down/up.
The same callbacks are called when the link on the medium falls/raise.
[1] https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev_core.h
[2] https://dpdk.org/browse/dpdk/tree/lib/librte_ether/rte_ethdev.h#n1677
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