On Sun, Dec 06, 2020 at 06:07:08PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > From: Lijun Pan <ljp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > [ Upstream commit 98025bce3a6200a0c4637272a33b5913928ba5b8 ]
> >
> > Commit 61d3e1d9bc2a ("ibmvnic: Remove netdev notify for failover resets")
> > excluded the failover case for notify call because it said
> > netdev_notify_peers() can cause network traffic to stall or halt.
> > Current testing does not show network traffic stall
> > or halt because of the notify call for failover event.
> > netdev_notify_peers may be used when a device wants to inform the
> > rest of the network about some sort of a reconfiguration
> > such as failover or migration.
> >
> > It is unnecessary to call that in other events like
> > FATAL, NON_FATAL, CHANGE_PARAM, and TIMEOUT resets
> > since in those scenarios the hardware does not change.
> > If the driver must do a hard reset, it is necessary to notify peers.
>
> Something went wrong here.
>
> > @@ -1877,8 +1877,9 @@ static int do_reset(struct ibmvnic_adapt
> > for (i = 0; i < adapter->req_rx_queues; i++)
> > napi_schedule(&adapter->napi[i]);
> >
> > - if (adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_FAILOVER &&
> > - adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_CHANGE_PARAM) {
> > + if ((adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_FAILOVER &&
> > + adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_CHANGE_PARAM) ||
> > + adapter->reset_reason == VNIC_RESET_MOBILITY) {
>
> This condition does not make sense... part after || is redundant.
>
> Mainline changed != in FAILOVER test to ==, so it does not have same
> problem.
Odd, ok, I'll just go drop this patch from the queue, thanks.
greg k-h
