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From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>
To: Luigi Rizzo <rizzo@iet.unipi.it>
Cc: Giuseppe Lettieri <g.lettieri@iet.unipi.it>,
	qemu-devel <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] difference between receive_raw() and receive() NetClientInfo methods ?
Date: Fri, 7 Jun 2013 14:29:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130607122912.GB11350@stefanha-thinkpad.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+hQ2+jHh84ygXR48w-t+b41N3bODzHRkOE2WbSPgGURYJwVzA@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jun 06, 2013 at 11:40:37AM +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote:
> Can someone clarify what is the difference between the two methods
> r
> eceive_raw() and receive() in NetClientInfo ?

receive_raw() builds an empty vnet header, if necessary.  It is used to
send a gratuitous ARP reply from inside QEMU.

In the case where the NIC and its peer use vnet headers, packets
generated by QEMU internally cannot use ->receive() since they don't
know how to use the vnet header.  ->receive_raw() takes care of that.

Stefan

      reply	other threads:[~2013-06-07 12:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-06  9:40 [Qemu-devel] difference between receive_raw() and receive() NetClientInfo methods ? Luigi Rizzo
2013-06-07 12:29 ` Stefan Hajnoczi [this message]

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