From: Petr Oros <po...@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 22 Nov 2018 15:24:07 +0100

> @@ -4700,8 +4700,11 @@ int be_update_queues(struct be_adapter *adapter)
>       struct net_device *netdev = adapter->netdev;
>       int status;
>  
> -     if (netif_running(netdev))
> +     if (netif_running(netdev)) {
> +             /* prevent netdev watchdog during tx queue destroy */
> +             netif_carrier_off(netdev);
>               be_close(netdev);
> +     }

This will make userspace networking daemons will think that the link
went down.

This absolutely should not be a side effect of making a simple
TX queue configuration change via ethtool.

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