Wenzhuo Lu bc043fb7c9 net/e1000/base: retry to get HW mailbox lock
The driver shouldn't give up if it fails to get the hardware mailbox lock.

This can happen in a situation where the PF-VF communication channel is
heavily loaded and causes complete communications failure between the PF
and VF drivers.

Add a counter and a delay. The driver will now retry ten times,
waiting one millisecond between retries.

Signed-off-by: Wenzhuo Lu <wenzhuo.lu@intel.com>
2017-01-17 19:36:48 +01:00
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