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From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] nfp: do not update MTU from BH in flower app
Date: Fri, 11 Aug 2017 10:10:24 +0200
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On Fri, Aug 11, 2017 at 10:07:03AM +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> The Flower app may receive a request to update the MTU of a representor
> netdev upon receipt of a control message from the firmware. This requires
> the RTNL lock which needs to be taken outside of the packet processing
> path.
> 
> As a handling of this correctly seems a little to invasive for a fix simply
> skip setting the MTU for now.

Sorry, please ignore this.

It is not against net as it claims. I will post a version against that tree.