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

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Date:   Fri, 30 Aug 2019 16:04:51 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <jakub.kicinski@...ronome.com>
To:     Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
Cc:     "sashal@...nel.org" <sashal@...nel.org>,
        "linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org" <linux-hyperv@...r.kernel.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        KY Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>,
        "olaf@...fle.de" <olaf@...fle.de>, vkuznets <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        "davem@...emloft.net" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Mark Bloch <markb@...lanox.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next, 2/2] hv_netvsc: Sync offloading features to VF
 NIC

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@...rosoft.com>
> Cc: Mark Bloch <markb@...lanox.com>

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