From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [V6 PATCH] virtio-net: send gratuitous packets when needed
Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 10:51:37 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120404075137.GB22658@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120403.174905.769295608759578804.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, Apr 03, 2012 at 05:49:05PM -0400, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 13:44:28 +0800
>
> > As hypervior does not have the knowledge of guest network configuration, it's
> > better to ask guest to send gratuitous packets when needed.
> >
> > Guest tests VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE bit during config change interrupt and when it
> > is set, a workqueue is scheduled to send gratuitous packet through
> > NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS. This feature is negotiated through bit
> > VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE.
> ...
> > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
>
> Michael and others, what's the story with this patch?
It's a new feature so it will be 3.5 material when it's ready.
Sent some comments for now.
Thanks,
MST
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-04 7:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-03-28 5:44 [Qemu-devel] [V6 PATCH] virtio-net: send gratuitous packets when needed Jason Wang
2012-04-03 21:49 ` David Miller
2012-04-04 7:51 ` Michael S. Tsirkin [this message]
2012-04-04 7:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
2012-04-05 5:56 ` Jason Wang
2012-04-05 6:37 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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