ibmvnic: Remove netdev notify for failover resets

When handling a driver reset due to a failover of the backing
server on the vios, doing the netdev_notify_peers() can cause
network traffic to stall or halt. Remove the netdev notify call
for failover resets.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Fontenot <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
index fd3ef3005fb02910dcd437990fb0e7c16463eddd..59ea7a5ae776cbfc0b82e6941b3c98bdd3e6cc4f 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c
@@ -1364,7 +1364,9 @@ static int do_reset(struct ibmvnic_adapter *adapter,
        for (i = 0; i < adapter->req_rx_queues; i++)
                napi_schedule(&adapter->napi[i]);
 
-       netdev_notify_peers(netdev);
+       if (adapter->reset_reason != VNIC_RESET_FAILOVER)
+               netdev_notify_peers(netdev);
+
        return 0;
 }