Now if the PF link is down and up, VF doesn't handle this event, user need to reset the VF port to let it recover. This patch set addes the support of the mailbox interruption on VF. So, VF can receice the messges for physical link down/up. And VF will handle this event and let the VF link recover automatically.
Wenzhuo Lu (4): ixgbe: VF supports mailbox interruption for PF link up/down igb: VF supports mailbox interruption for PF link up/down ixgbe: automatic link recovery on VF igb: automatic link recovery on VF doc/guides/rel_notes/release_16_07.rst | 11 ++ drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethdev.h | 14 ++ drivers/net/e1000/igb_ethdev.c | 244 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/net/e1000/igb_rxtx.c | 38 +++++ drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.c | 169 ++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_ethdev.h | 14 ++ drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c | 34 +++++ drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.h | 2 + 8 files changed, 523 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) -- 1.9.3