On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 11:42:33 -0800 "Samudrala, Sridhar" <sridhar.samudrala@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 12/19/2017 10:41 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Dec 2017 13:21:17 -0500 (EST) > > David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2017 09:55:48 -0800 > >> > >>> could be 10ms, just enough to let udev do its renaming > >> Please, move to some kind of notification or event based handling of > >> this problem. > >> > >> No delay is safe, what if userspace gets swapped out or whatever > >> else might make userspace stall unexpectedly? > >> > > The plan is to remove the delay and do the naming in the kernel. > > This was suggested by Lennart since udev is only doing naming policy > > because kernel names were not repeatable. > > > > This makes the VF show up as "ethN_vf" on Hyper-V which is user friendly. > > > > Patch is pending. > Do we really need to delay the setup until the name is changed? > Can't we call dev_set_mtu() and dev_open() until dev_change_name() is done? > > Thanks > Sridhar You can call dev_set_mtu, but when dev_open is done the device name can not be changed by userspace. _______________________________________________ Virtualization mailing list Virtualization@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/virtualization
