> > Currently, we reset all fields of a device to zero when reset > > happens, which is wrong, since for some fields like device_fh, > > ifname, and virt_qp_nb, they should be same and be kept after > > reset until the device is removed. And this is what's the new > > helper function reset_device() for. > > > > And use rte_zmalloc() instead of rte_malloc, so that we could > > avoid init_device(), which basically dose zero reset only so far. > > Hence, init_device() is dropped in this patch. > > > > This patch also removes a hack of using the offset a specific > > field (which is virtqueue now) inside of `virtio_net' structure > > to do reset, which could be broken easily if someone changed the > > field order without caution. > > > > Cc: Tetsuya Mukawa <mukawa at igel.co.jp> > > Cc: Xie Huawei <huawei.xie at intel.com> > > Signed-off-by: Yuanhan Liu <yuanhan.liu at linux.intel.com> > > > > I had a patch that just saved the ifname but this is much better. > > Acked-by: Rich Lane <rlane at bigswitch.com>
Applied, thanks
