Re: [PATCH net-next RFC v4 15/15] devlink: Add Documentation/networking/devlink/devlink-reload.rst

Moshe Shemesh
2020-09-15T20:08:17Z

On 9/15/2020 7:04 PM, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
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> On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 09:08:02 +0300 Moshe Shemesh wrote:
>> + * - ``no_reset``
>> + - No reset allowed, no down time allowed, no link flap and no
>> + configuration is lost.
> It still takes the PCI link down for up to 2sec. So there is down time,
> right?

No, the fw reset with PCI link down is categorized as fw_activate with
limit level none.

fw_live_patch keeps the pci link up and it fits to "no_reset" limit level.