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From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
To: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com>
Cc: netdev <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, kvm <kvm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] virtio_net: add link status handling
Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 10:26:36 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200812101026.36538.rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1228817973.26198.1.camel@blaa>

On Tuesday 09 December 2008 20:49:33 Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> Allow the host to inform us that the link is down by adding
> a VIRTIO_NET_F_STATUS which indicates that device status is
> available in virtio_net config.

This has been a TODO for a while, thanks!

> +	if (vi->status == v)
> +		return;
> +
> +	vi->status = v;
> +
> +	if (vi->status & VIRTIO_NET_S_LINK_UP) {
> +		netif_carrier_on(vi->dev);
> +		netif_wake_queue(vi->dev);
> +	} else {
> +		netif_carrier_off(vi->dev);
> +		netif_stop_queue(vi->dev);
> +	}

New status bits will screw this logic unless we count
on the host not to set them.  I suggest:

	/* Ignore unknown (future) status bits */
	v &= VIRTIO_NET_S_LINK_UP;

Cheers,
Rusty.

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-12-09 23:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-12-09 10:19 [PATCH] virtio_net: add link status handling Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-09 21:32 ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-09 23:53   ` Rusty Russell
2008-12-10  3:11     ` Anthony Liguori
2008-12-10 18:34       ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-12  8:04         ` Rusty Russell
2009-01-07 18:18           ` Mark McLoughlin
2009-01-09 11:51             ` Mark McLoughlin
2008-12-09 23:56 ` Rusty Russell [this message]

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