netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] hv_netvsc: fix a hang on channel/mtu changes

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Date:   Wed, 08 Nov 2017 10:31:05 +0900 (KST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     vkuznets@...hat.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        devel@...uxdriverproject.org, kys@...rosoft.com,
        haiyangz@...rosoft.com, sthemmin@...rosoft.com,
        eric.dumazet@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 0/2] hv_netvsc: fix a hang on channel/mtu
 changes

From: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>
Date: Thu,  2 Nov 2017 11:35:29 +0100

> It was found that netvsc driver doesn't survive e.g.
> 
> # while true; do ethtool -L eth0 combined 4; ethtool -L eth0 combined 8; done"
> 
> test. I was able to identify a hang in guest/host communication, it is
> fixed by PATCH1 of this series. PATCH2 is a cosmetic change masking
> unneeded messages.
> 
> Changes since v1:
> - Throw away patches 2 and 3 of the original series as one is unneeded and
>   the other is not justified [Eric Dumazet, Stephen Hemminger] so I'm only
>   fixing the hang now, the crash doesn't reproduce. Will keep an eye on it.

Series applied to net-next, thank you.