Re: [PATCH] net: Resend IGMP memberships upon peer notification.

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 08:58:08AM -0400, Vladislav Yasevich wrote:
> When we notify peers of potential changes,  it's also good to update
> IGMP memberships.  For example, during VM migration, updating IGMP
> memberships will redirect existing multicast streams to the VM at the
> new location.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vladislav Yasevich <vyasevic@redhat.com>


what will happen on the source? will the snooping bridge remove
membership on port removal as appropriate?

> ---
>  net/core/dev.c | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
> index a229bf0..1ed927d 100644
> --- a/net/core/dev.c
> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
> @@ -1272,6 +1272,7 @@ void netdev_notify_peers(struct net_device *dev)
>  {
>  	rtnl_lock();
>  	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS, dev);
> +	call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_RESEND_IGMP, dev);
>  	rtnl_unlock();
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(netdev_notify_peers);
> -- 
> 2.7.4