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[CX7] there are thousends of broadcast traffic inside vf dpdk-testpmd

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      What were you trying to do that didn't work?

      create vf on PF, then start dpdk-testpmd

      Please provide the package NVR for which bug is seen:

      5.14.0-284.40.1.el9_2.x86_64

      dpdk-22.11-3.el9_2.x86_64

      How reproducible:

      100%

      Steps to reproduce

      1. create 1 vf on each PF
      2. echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:af\:00.0/sriov_numvfs
      3. echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000\:af\:00.1/sriov_numvfs 
      4. start dpdk-testpmd
      5. dpdk-testpmd -l 1,3,5 -a 0000:af:00.2 -a 0000:af:01.2 – -i --auto-start

      Expected results

      Actual results

      there are many traffic inside dpdk-testpmd in 1 minutes 

      testpmd> Telling cores to stop...
      Waiting for lcores to finish...

        ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 0  ----------------------
        RX-packets: 5718847        RX-dropped: 0             RX-total: 5718847
        TX-packets: 5718844        TX-dropped: 0             TX-total: 5718844
        ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

        ---------------------- Forward statistics for port 1  ----------------------
        RX-packets: 5718844        RX-dropped: 0             RX-total: 5718844
        TX-packets: 5718847        TX-dropped: 0             TX-total: 5718847
        ----------------------------------------------------------------------------

        +++++++++++++++ Accumulated forward statistics for all ports+++++++++++++++
        RX-packets: 11437691       RX-dropped: 0             RX-total: 11437691
        TX-packets: 11437691       TX-dropped: 0             TX-total: 11437691
        ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

       

      Additional info:

      there is no traffic when using PF to start testpmd

      and there are traffic in CX5 card testbed.  But I don't know whether the large amount traffic is as expected or not. So open this bug.

              echaudro@redhat.com Eelco Chaudron
              rh-ee-jiqiu Jiying Qiu
              NVIDIA (Mellanox) Confidential Group
              Eelco Chaudron Eelco Chaudron
              Hekai Wang Hekai Wang
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