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  2. OCPBUGS-38261

SR-IOV drain reboot causes need to be explained

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      We need to add explanations regarding node reboot are our customers wants to avoid reboots (downtime).

      https://docs.openshift.com/container-platform/4.16/networking/hardware_networks/configuring-sriov-device.html#nw-sriov-configuring-device_configuring-sriov-device

      """
      When applying the configuration specified in a SriovNetworkNodePolicy object, the SR-IOV Operator might drain the nodes, and in some cases, reboot nodes.

      It might take several minutes for a configuration change to apply.
      """

      reboot will happens in the following cases only

      • with Mellanox NICs (mlx5 driver) every time we increase the number of vfs on a PF
      • with Intel NICs: only if the kernel parameters doesn't contains intel_iommu=on and iommu=pt

              rhn-support-kquinn Kevin Quinn
              fbaudin@redhat.com Franck Baudin
              Nikita Kononov Nikita Kononov
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