> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 12:54 PM
> To: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]>; [email protected];
> [email protected]
> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; Stephen Hemminger
> <[email protected]>; Shah, Ashish N <[email protected]>
> Subject: [PATCH] hv_netvsc: do not use VF device if link is down
>
> If the accelerated networking SRIOV VF device has lost carrier
> use the synthetic network device which is available as backup
> path. This is a rare case since if VF link goes down, normally
> the VMBus device will also loose external connectivity as well.
> But if the communication is between two VM's on the same host
> the VMBus device will still work.
>
> Reported-by: "Shah, Ashish N" <[email protected]>
> Fixes: 0c195567a8f6 ("netvsc: transparent VF management")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <[email protected]>
Thank you.
