From: Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com> Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2012 08:11:47 -0400
> On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 14:44 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >> We drop packet unconditionally when we fail to mirror it. This is not >> intended >> in some cases. Consdier for kvm guest, we may mirror the traffic of the >> bridge >> to a tap device used by a VM. When kernel fails to mirror the packet in >> conditions such as when qemu crashes or stop polling the tap, it's hard for >> the >> management software to detect such condition and clean the the mirroring >> before. This would lead all packets to the bridge to be dropped and break the >> netowrk of other virtual machines. >> >> To solve the issue, the patch does not drop packets when kernel fails to >> mirror >> it, and only drop the redirected packets. >> >> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com> > > Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com> Applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
