[Qemu-devel] Re: [PATCHv3 0/2] vhost: fix tap link down

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>]

On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 18:44 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote:
> qemu makes it possible to disable link at tap
> which is not communicated to the guest but
> causes all packets to be dropped.
> 
> With vhost-net at the moment it just keeps going.
> Fix by communicating to virtio net and have that
> stop vhost-net.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
> Reported-by: pradeep <psuriset@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> Changes from v2:
> 	comment tweaked
> 	split to two patches
> 
> Changes from v1:
> 	fix link down after guest link is up
> 
> 
> 
> Michael S. Tsirkin (2):
>   net: notify peer about link status change
>   vhost: disable on tap link down
> 
>  hw/virtio-net.c |    3 ++-
>  net.c           |   11 +++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 

Thanks

Acked-by: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@redhat.com>