netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2 0/3] ibmvnic: Reset behavior fixes

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Date:   Mon, 22 Jan 2018 15:47:10 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     jallen@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, tlfalcon@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        nfont@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2 0/3] ibmvnic: Reset behavior fixes

From: John Allen <jallen@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 16:25:39 -0600

> This patchset fixes a number of issues related to ibmvnic reset uncovered
> from testing new Power9 machines with Everglades adapters and the new
> functionality to change mtu and other parameters in the driver.
> 
> Changes since v1:
> -In patch 1/3, added the line to free the long term buffers before
> allocating a new one. This change inadvertently uncovered the problem
> that the number of queues can change after a failover as well. To fix
> this, we check whether or not the number of queues has changed in
> do_reset and if they have, we do a full release and init of the queues.
> -In patch 1/3, added variables to the adapter struct to track how
> many rx/tx pools have actually been allocated and modify the release
> pools routines to use these values rather than the possibly incorrect
> req_rx/tx_queues values.

Series applied, thanks John.