> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, August 4, 2020 12:54 PM
> To: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>; da...@davemloft.net;
> k...@kernel.org
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; wei....@kernel.org; Stephen Hemminger
> <step...@networkplumber.org>; Shah, Ashish N <ashish.n.s...@intel.com>
> 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" <ashish.n.s...@intel.com>
> Fixes: 0c195567a8f6 ("netvsc: transparent VF management")
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
Reviewed-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiya...@microsoft.com>
Thank you.
