From: "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 09:41:39 -0800 > This is based on netvsc implementation and here is the commit that > added this delay. Not sure if this needs to be 100ms. > > commit 6123c66854c174e4982f98195100c1d990f9e5e6 > Author: stephen hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Date: Wed Aug 9 17:46:03 2017 -0700 > > netvsc: delay setup of VF device > > When VF device is discovered, delay bring it automatically up in > order to allow userspace to some simple changes (like renaming). This is kind of bogus, I should have called this out when the patch was posted. Any delay is wrong, there needs to be tight synchronization if a userspace operation must occur before proceeding. If something happens and userspace is delayed, this whole thing doesn't work. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
