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.