net/virtio: fix link status always down

[dpdk.git] / drivers / net / virtio / virtio_ethdev.c

diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
index e79748e..cd87c0e 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
+++ b/drivers/net/virtio/virtio_ethdev.c
@@ -1742,9 +1742,6 @@ virtio_dev_start(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
                }
        }
 
-       /* Initialize Link state */
-       virtio_dev_link_update(dev, 0);
-
        /*Notify the backend
         *Otherwise the tap backend might already stop its queue due to fullness.
         *vhost backend will have no chance to be waked up
@@ -1773,8 +1770,12 @@ virtio_dev_start(struct rte_eth_dev *dev)
                txvq = dev->data->tx_queues[i];
                VIRTQUEUE_DUMP(txvq->vq);
        }
+
        hw->started = 1;
 
+       /* Initialize Link state */
+       virtio_dev_link_update(dev, 0);
+
        return 0;
 }