Bug 2221021

Summary:	Nmstate is not waiting long for SR-IOV VF to show up when changing ethtool settings
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9	Reporter:	Gris Ge <fge>
Component:	nmstate	Assignee:	Gris Ge <fge>
Status:	VERIFIED ---	QA Contact:	Mingyu Shi <mshi>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	9.2	CC:	ferferna, jiji, jishi, network-qe, sfaye, till
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Triaged, ZStream
Target Release:	9.2
Hardware:	x86_64
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	nmstate-2.2.13-1.el9	Doc Type:	No Doc Update
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Bug Blocks:	2221050

Description Gris Ge 2023-07-07 04:53:00 UTC

Description of problem:

When applying ethtool settings for a SR-IOV enabled NIC, nmstate is not waiting long
enough for VF to show up

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
nmstate-2.2.12-2.el9

How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Enable SRIOV on a NIC with 10+ VFs
2. Get the current ethtool setting and apply it via nmstate
3.

Actual results:

Verification error indicating VF of SR-IOV not shows up.

Expected results:

No failure.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Gris Ge 2023-07-07 04:55:22 UTC

Requesting RHEL 9.2 zstream per ksundara from openstack.

The scratch build has been tested in the same environment which reproduced the problem.
A 100 retry passed without failure.

patch sent to upstream: https://github.com/nmstate/nmstate/pull/2381