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Commit 07b4eb3b authored by Dmitry Kravkov's avatar Dmitry Kravkov Committed by David S. Miller
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bnx2x: Change DCB context handling



After notification that DCBX configuration has ended arrived to the driver,
the driver configured the FW/HW in sleepless context.
As a result, it was possible to reach a race (mostly with CNIC registration)
in which the configuration will return a timeout, failing to set the DCBX
results correctly.

This patch moves the configuration following the DCBX end into the slowpath
RTNL task (i.e., sleepless context protected by the RTNL lock), allowing the
configuration to cope with such races.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Kravkov <dmitry@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarYuval Mintz <yuvalmin@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAriel Elior <ariele@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 9156b30b
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