New cisco-enic driver available for testing

[MrQ]

We're preparing an update of the Cisco ENIC driver on XCP-ng 8.3, from 4.5.0.7 to 4.7.0.6.

This is a significant upstream update, including changes to SR-IOV, PF/VF communication, queue/IRQ handling, MTU and lifecycle management. We've only done build testing so far, so we'd really like to have some users with Cisco ENIC hardware test it before we release it officially.

If you're running XCP-ng 8.3 with an ENIC NIC and are willing to help, please give it a try!

Download the test RPM from the Koji build:

cd /tmp
wget https://koji.xcp-ng.org/kojifiles/packages/cisco-enic/4.7.0.6/1.1.xcpng8.3/x86_64/cisco-enic-4.7.0.6-1.1.xcpng8.3.x86_64.rpm
yum update ./cisco-enic-4.7.0.6-1.1.xcpng8.3.x86_64.rpm
reboot

After reboot, you can check the driver version with:

ethtool -i <interface>

In case of problems, you can simply downgrade to the version currently available in the XCP-ng repositories:

yum downgrade cisco-enic
reboot

If you encounter any problems, please report them here, ideally including the output of:

rpm -q cisco-enic
ethtool -i <interface>
dmesg | grep -i enic

Thanks to anyone willing to test this!

PR for reference: https://github.com/xcp-ng-rpms/cisco-enic/pull/1