> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Stefan Assmann > Sent: Friday, July 10, 2015 6:01 AM > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected]; Kirsher, Jeffrey T; [email protected] > Subject: [PATCH] igb: do not re-init SR-IOV during probe > > During driver probing the following code path is triggered. > igb_probe > ->igb_sw_init > ->igb_probe_vfs > ->igb_pci_enable_sriov > ->igb_sriov_reinit > > Doing the SR-IOV re-init is not necessary during probing since we're > starting from scratch. Here we can call igb_enable_sriov() right away. > > Running igb_sriov_reinit() during igb_probe() also seems to cause > occasional packet loss on some onboard 82576 NICs. Reproduced on > Dell and HP servers with onboard 82576 NICs. > Example: > Intel Corporation 82576 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:10c9] (rev 01) > Subsystem: Dell Device [1028:0481] > > Signed-off-by: Stefan Assmann <[email protected]> > --- > drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) >
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