Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 0/2] network announce; interface selection

[Laine Stump <laine@redhat.com>]

On 5/23/19 10:58 AM, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) wrote:
> From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> 
> Laine asked for some extra features on the network announce support;
> this is the first one of them.
> It allows you to send an announce on a subset of the interfaces.
> 
> Note since we've still only got one timer, if you start one announce
> on an interface and then you start a second announce on another
> interface, the first one gets cancelled even if it's part way through.
> [That's the other feature Laine would like, but I need to think about
> that a bit more.

I have a question without trying to read/understand the code: Does the 
restricted interface list persist to future self-announces? (e.g. one 
that is internally initiated by qemu) Or does it only apply to the 
current new self-announce? (Hopefully the latter)

> 
> Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com>
> 
> 
> Dr. David Alan Gilbert (2):
>    net/announce: Allow optional list of interfaces
>    net/announce: Add HMP optional interface list
> 
>   hmp-commands.hx        |  6 ++++--
>   hmp.c                  | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>   include/net/announce.h |  2 +-
>   net/announce.c         | 39 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
>   net/trace-events       |  2 +-
>   qapi/net.json          |  8 +++++---
>   6 files changed, 80 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>