netdev - Re: [PATCH V2 net] ibmvnic: Continue with reset if set link down failed

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Date:   Thu, 22 Apr 2021 12:01:30 -0500
From:   Lijun Pan <lijunp213@...il.com>
To:     Rick Lindsley <ricklind@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     Dany Madden <drt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
        Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Thomas Falcon <tlfalcon@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH V2 net] ibmvnic: Continue with reset if set link down failed

On Thu, Apr 22, 2021 at 2:07 AM Rick Lindsley
<ricklind@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On 4/21/21 10:30 PM, Lijun Pan wrote:
> >> Fixes: ed651a10875f ("ibmvnic: Updated reset handling")
> >> Signed-off-by: Dany Madden <drt@...ux.ibm.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Rick Lindsley <ricklind@...ux.ibm.com>
> >> Reviewed-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ux.ibm.com>
> >
> > One thing I would like to point out as already pointed out by Nathan Lynch is
> > that those review-by tags given by the same groups of people from the same
> > company loses credibility over time if you never critique or ask
> > questions on the list.
> >
>
> Well, so far you aren't addressing either my critiques or questions.
>
> I have been asking questions but all I have from you are the above
> attempts to discredit the reputation of myself and other people, and
> non-technical statements like
>
>      will make the code very difficult to manage
>      I think there should be a trade off between optimization and stability.
>      So I don't think you could even compare the two results
>
> On the other hand, from the original submission I see some very specific
> details:
>
>      If ibmvnic abandons the reset because of this failed set link
>      down and this is the last reset in the workqueue, then this
>      adapter will be left in an inoperable state.
>
> and from a followup discussion:
>
>      We had a FATAL error and when handling it, we failed to
>      send a link-down message to the VIOS. So what we need
>      to try next is to reset the connection with the VIOS. For
>      this we must ...
>
> These are great technical points that could be argued or discussed.
> Problem is, I agree with them.
>
> I will ask again:  can you please supply some technical reasons for
> your objections.  Otherwise, your objections are meritless and at worst
> simply an ad hominem attack.

Well, from the beginning of v1, I started to provide technical inputs.
Then I was not
allowed to post anything in the community about this patch and VNIC
via ljp@...ux.ibm.com except giving an ack-by/reviewed-by.