Re: [PATCH net-next RFC v4 01/15] devlink: Add reload action option to devlink reload command

Jiri Pirko
2020-09-15T06:18:54Z

Tue, Sep 15, 2020 at 12:06:19AM CEST, michael.chan@broadcom.com wrote:
>On Mon, Sep 14, 2020 at 2:31 PM Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, 14 Sep 2020 13:28:29 +0200 Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> > >> Instead, why don't you block in reload_up() until the reset is complete?
>> > >
>> > >Though user initiate "devlink dev reload" event on a single interface,
>> > >all driver entities undergo reset and all entities recover
>> > >independently. I don't think we can block the reload_up() on the
>> > >interface(that user initiated the command), until whole reset is
>> > >complete.
>> >
>> > Why not? mlxsw reset takes up to like 10 seconds for example.
>>
>> +1, why?
>
>Yes, we should be able to block until the reset sequence is complete.
>I don't see any problem. I will work with Vasundhara on this.

Could you please also remove fw_reset as it is apparently misuse of
devlink health mechanism?

Thanks!