On Thu, Mar 11, 2021 at 01:49:24PM -0800, Alexander Duyck wrote: > > We don't need to invent new locks and new complexity for something > > that is trivially solved already. > > I am not wanting a new lock. What I am wanting is a way to mark the VF > as being stale/offline while we are performing the update. With that > we would be able to apply similar logic to any changes in the future. I think we should hold off doing this until someone comes up with HW that needs it. The response time here is microseconds, it is not worth any complexity Jason