linux/drivers/net
Jon Maxwell cc54a59ae6 igbvf: remove "link is Up" message when registering mcast address
A similar issue was addressed a few years ago in the following thread:

http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg245877.html

At that time there were concerns that removing this statement may cause other
side effects. However the submitter addressed those concerns. But the dialogue
went cold. We have a new case where a customers application is registering and
un-registering multicast addresses every few seconds. This is leading to many
"Link is Up" messages in the logs as a result of the
"netif_carrier_off(netdev)" statement called by igbvf_msix_other(). Also on
some kernels it is interfering with the bonding driver causing it to failover
and subsequently affecting connectivity.

The Sourgeforge driver does not make this call and is therefore not affected.
If there were any side effects I would expect that driver to also be affected.
I have tested re-loading the igbvf driver and downing the adapter with the PF
entity on the host where the VM has this patch. When I bring it back up again
connectivity is restored as expected. Therefore I request that this patch gets
submitted.

Signed-off-by: Jon Maxwell <jmaxwell37@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
2016-02-24 15:45:50 -08:00
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appletalk
arcnet
bonding Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-02-23 00:09:14 -05:00
caif
can Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-02-23 00:09:14 -05:00
cris
dsa net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: check hardware VLAN in use 2016-02-23 14:52:46 -05:00
ethernet igbvf: remove "link is Up" message when registering mcast address 2016-02-24 15:45:50 -08:00
fddi defxx: fix build warning 2016-01-25 10:51:52 -08:00
fjes
hamradio dmascc: Return correct error codes 2016-02-16 15:32:34 -05:00
hippi
hyperv Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-02-23 00:09:14 -05:00
ieee802154
ipvlan ipvlan: misc changes 2016-02-21 22:43:24 -05:00
irda net/irda: bfin_sir: remove duplicate defines 2016-01-21 10:45:45 -08:00
phy Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-02-23 00:09:14 -05:00
plip net: plip: use new parport device model 2016-01-09 21:02:05 -05:00
ppp pppoe: fix reference counting in PPPoE proxy 2016-02-17 16:02:01 -05:00
slip
team team: track sum of rx_nohandler for all slaves 2016-02-06 02:59:51 -05:00
usb USB: cdc_subset: only build when one driver is enabled 2016-02-18 15:59:45 -05:00
vmxnet3 Driver: Vmxnet3: Update Rx ring 2 max size 2016-02-21 22:04:15 -05:00
wan dscc4: Undefined signed int shift 2016-02-13 06:10:21 -05:00
wimax
wireless Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-02-23 00:09:14 -05:00
xen-netback xen-netback: implement dynamic multicast control 2016-02-07 13:58:36 -05:00
dummy.c
eql.c
geneve.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-02-23 00:09:14 -05:00
ifb.c
Kconfig
LICENSE.SRC
loopback.c
macvlan.c macvlan: convert to use IFF_NO_QUEUE 2016-02-17 15:19:44 -05:00
macvtap.c
Makefile
mdio.c
mii.c
netconsole.c
nlmon.c
ntb_netdev.c
rionet.c
sb1000.c
Space.c
sungem_phy.c
tun.c
veth.c
virtio_net.c virtio_net: validate ethtool port setting and explain the user validation 2016-02-11 11:55:38 -05:00
vrf.c vrf: duplicate include of rtnetlink.h 2016-02-11 09:45:24 -05:00
vxlan.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2016-02-23 00:09:14 -05:00
xen-netfront.c xen-netfront: request Tx response events more often 2016-01-28 16:08:55 -08:00