Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 2/2] net: introduce command to query rx-filter information

[Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>]

On Fri, 24 May 2013 11:08:13 +0800
Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com> wrote:

> On Thu, May 23, 2013 at 12:03:25PM -0400, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 May 2013 17:08:00 +0800
> > Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > A flag is used to avoid events flooding, if user don't query
> > > rx-filter after receives one event, new events won't be sent
> > > to qmp monitor.
> 
> 
> > > +RxFilterInfoList *qmp_query_rx_filter(bool has_name, const char *name,
> > > +                                      Error **errp)
> > > +{
> > > +    NetClientState *nc;
> > > +    RxFilterInfoList *filter_list = NULL, *last_entry = NULL;
> > > +
> > > +    QTAILQ_FOREACH(nc, &net_clients, next) {
> > > +        RxFilterInfoList *entry;
> > > +        RxFilterInfo *info;
> > > +
> > > +        if (nc->info->type != NET_CLIENT_OPTIONS_KIND_NIC) {
> > > +            continue;
> > > +        }
> > > +        if (has_name && strcmp(nc->name, name) != 0) {
> > > +            continue;
> > > +        }
> > 
> > I don't think we need this argument. This command is quite simple in its
> > response, let's do this filtering in HMP only.
> 
> Event message contains the net client name, management might only want
> to query the single net client.

The client can do the filtering itself.

> 
> And we plan to use a flag for _each nic_ to control the event notification,
> querying single net client will only clear it's flag.
> 
> So we need to support query by net-client-name.
>