netdev - Re: [PATCH net] ionic: tame the watchdog timer on reconfig

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Message-ID: <086f01c2-b8ab-3a92-2a1b-b53fa1e0245b@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 19 Jun 2020 12:06:20 -0400
From:   Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@...hat.com>
To:     Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] ionic: tame the watchdog timer on reconfig

On 6/18/20 1:29 PM, Shannon Nelson wrote:
> Even with moving netif_tx_disable() to an earlier point when
> taking down the queues for a reconfiguration, we still end
> up with the occasional netdev watchdog Tx Timeout complaint.
> The old method of using netif_trans_update() works fine for
> queue 0, but has no effect on the remaining queues.  Using
> netif_device_detach() allows us to signal to the watchdog to
> ignore us for the moment.
> 
> Fixes: beead698b173 ("ionic: Add the basic NDO callbacks for netdev support")
> Signed-off-by: Shannon Nelson <snelson@...sando.io>

Acked-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@...hat.com>