From: Stefan Assmann Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 13:01:12 +0000 (+0200) Subject: igb: do not re-init SR-IOV during probe X-Git-Tag: v4.3-rc1~96^2~132^2~12 X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6423fc3416;p=karo-tx-linux.git 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 Tested-by: Aaron Brown Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher --- diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c index 0069c328d7ad..67ac0eabe6c4 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c @@ -2851,7 +2851,7 @@ static void igb_probe_vfs(struct igb_adapter *adapter) return; pci_sriov_set_totalvfs(pdev, 7); - igb_pci_enable_sriov(pdev, max_vfs); + igb_enable_sriov(pdev, max_vfs); #endif /* CONFIG_PCI_IOV */ }