Re: [PATCH net-next v4] xen-netfront: delay gARP until backend switches to Connected

[Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>]

On 01/02/12 15:50, Jan Beulich wrote:

> Wouldn't all of this equally apply to the 2.6.18 kernel and its derivates?

I haven't checked the linux-2.6.18-xen.hg source at all before because 
the (first) affected RHEL-5 netfront patch 
("linux-2.6-xen-xennet-coordinate-ARP-with-backend-network-status.patch") states,

     The frontend part of the patch is not applicable in upstream
     Linux as there is no gratuitous ARP packet support there at all.
     While the backend upstream is dead as far as I know.  So this
     is RHEL5-specific.

Regarding the RHEL-5 host side,

 >> (1) ensure that the backend only moves to Connected xenbus state
 >> after its hotplug scripts completed, ie. the netback interface got
 >> added to the bridge; and

 >> Sub-condition (1) is already satisfied by commit f942dc2552b8 in
 >> Linus' tree, based on commit 6b0b80ca7165 from [1].

 >> [1] 
git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/linux-2.6.git#upstream/dom0/backend/netback-history

I figured the backend change is "already upstream". (Actually where I 
took it from was 43223efd9bfd in Jeremy's tree.)

So, what do you want me to do? I think I could get the frontend patch 
right without compiling linux-2.6.18-xen.hg. The backend is more messy 
however.

Thanks
Laszlo