ibmvnic: notify peers when failover and migration happen
Commit 61d3e1d9 ("ibmvnic: Remove netdev notify for failover resets") excluded the failover case for notify call because it said netdev_notify_peers() can cause network traffic to stall or halt. Current testing does not show network traffic stall or halt because of the notify call for failover event. netdev_notify_peers may be used when a device wants to inform the rest of the network about some sort of a reconfiguration such as failover or migration. It is unnecessary to call that in other events like FATAL, NON_FATAL, CHANGE_PARAM, and TIMEOUT resets since in those scenarios the hardware does not change. If the driver must do a hard reset, it is necessary to notify peers. Fixes: 61d3e1d9 ("ibmvnic: Remove netdev notify for failover resets") Suggested-by: Brian King <brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Suggested-by: Pradeep Satyanarayana <pradeeps@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Dany Madden <drt@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Lijun Pan <ljp@linux.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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