mainline inclusion
from mainline-v5.13-rc1
commit 01305e16
category: feature
bugzilla: 173966
CVE: NA

Reference: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=01305e16ebe7791e7a1b97485f83999f48cd79d0

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To reduce the processing of unnecessary mailbox command when PF supports
actively push its link status to VFs, VFs stop sending request link
status command in periodic service task in this case.
Signed-off-by: NGuangbin Huang <huangguangbin2@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NHuazhong Tan <tanhuazhong@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: NYongxin Li <liyongxin1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NJunxin Chen <chenjunxin1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: NZheng Zengkai <zhengzengkai@huawei.com>