Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/9] Network announce changes

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

On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 05:03:12PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> 
> Hi,
>   This is a reworking of a few sets of patches from 2017
> that were put together by myself, Germano and Vlad that make
> the network announce system more flexible.
> 
>   Firstly, it's parameterised, so that you can change the number
> of packets and the gap between them; the number can be set to 0
> to disable announce completely.
> 
>   Secondly, you can force an announce by a qmp or hmp command at
> any time.  This is useful if you need the guest to do an announce
> for a different reason; for example if the management layer
> has just juggled some bonding configuration around.
> 
>   The packet creation and timing also moves to net/ from migration/
> 
>   The previous set was:
>      https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-05/msg05594.html
> 
> Dave

Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>

Who's applying this? Jason?


> Dr. David Alan Gilbert (9):
>   net: Introduce announce timer
>   migration: Add announce parameters
>   virtio-net: Switch to using announce timer
>   migration: Switch to using announce timer
>   net: Add a network device specific self-announcement ability
>   virtio-net: Allow qemu_announce_self to trigger virtio announcements
>   qmp: Add announce-self command
>   hmp: Add hmp_announce_self
>   tests: Add a test for qemu self announcments
> 
>  hmp-commands.hx                |  14 ++++
>  hmp.c                          |  33 ++++++++
>  hmp.h                          |   1 +
>  hw/net/trace-events            |   8 ++
>  hw/net/virtio-net.c            |  69 ++++++++++++----
>  include/hw/virtio/virtio-net.h |   4 +-
>  include/migration/misc.h       |  12 +--
>  include/net/announce.h         |  41 ++++++++++
>  include/net/net.h              |   2 +
>  include/qemu/typedefs.h        |   2 +
>  include/sysemu/sysemu.h        |   2 -
>  migration/migration.c          | 103 +++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  migration/migration.h          |   4 +
>  migration/savevm.c             |  72 +----------------
>  migration/trace-events         |   1 -
>  net/Makefile.objs              |   1 +
>  net/announce.c                 | 141 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  net/trace-events               |   4 +
>  qapi/migration.json            |  56 ++++++++++++-
>  qapi/net.json                  |  43 ++++++++++
>  tests/Makefile.include         |   2 +
>  tests/test-announce-self.c     |  83 +++++++++++++++++++
>  tests/test-hmp.c               |   1 +
>  23 files changed, 595 insertions(+), 104 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 include/net/announce.h
>  create mode 100644 net/announce.c
>  create mode 100644 tests/test-announce-self.c
> 
> -- 
> 2.20.1