Re: [PATCH net-next, 2/2] hv_netvsc: Sync offloading features to VF NIC

From: Jakub Kicinski
Date: Fri Aug 30 2019 - 19:05:20 EST


On Fri, 30 Aug 2019 03:45:38 +0000, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> VF NIC may go down then come up during host servicing events. This
> causes the VF NIC offloading feature settings to roll back to the
> defaults. This patch can synchronize features from synthetic NIC to
> the VF NIC during ndo_set_features (ethtool -K),
> and netvsc_register_vf when VF comes back after host events.
>
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Mark Bloch <markb@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

If we want to make this change in behaviour we should change
net_failover at the same time.