Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 5/4 PATCH] virtio-net: send gratuitous packet when needed

2011-10-25 Thread Jason Wang
On 10/25/2011 11:41 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:50:41AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >> On 10/24/2011 01:25 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 02:54:59PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:43:11 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > T

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 5/4 PATCH] virtio-net: send gratuitous packet when needed

2011-10-25 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Tue, Oct 25, 2011 at 10:50:41AM +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > On 10/24/2011 01:25 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 02:54:59PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > >> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:43:11 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > >>> This make let virtio-net driver can send gratituous pa

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 5/4 PATCH] virtio-net: send gratuitous packet when needed

2011-10-24 Thread Jason Wang
On 10/24/2011 01:25 PM, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 02:54:59PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: >> On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:43:11 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: >>> This make let virtio-net driver can send gratituous packet by a new >>> config bit - VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE in each config

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 5/4 PATCH] virtio-net: send gratuitous packet when needed

2011-10-24 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2011-10-24 at 07:25 +0200, Michael S. Tsirkin wrote: > On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 02:54:59PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:43:11 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > > This make let virtio-net driver can send gratituous packet by a new > > > config bit - VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 5/4 PATCH] virtio-net: send gratuitous packet when needed

2011-10-23 Thread Michael S. Tsirkin
On Mon, Oct 24, 2011 at 02:54:59PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:43:11 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > > This make let virtio-net driver can send gratituous packet by a new > > config bit - VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE in each config update > > interrupt. When this bit is set by backend

Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 5/4 PATCH] virtio-net: send gratuitous packet when needed

2011-10-23 Thread Rusty Russell
On Sat, 22 Oct 2011 13:43:11 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > This make let virtio-net driver can send gratituous packet by a new > config bit - VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE in each config update > interrupt. When this bit is set by backend, the driver would schedule > a workqueue to send gratituous packet thr

[Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 PATCH 5/4 PATCH] virtio-net: send gratuitous packet when needed

2011-10-21 Thread Jason Wang
This make let virtio-net driver can send gratituous packet by a new config bit - VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE in each config update interrupt. When this bit is set by backend, the driver would schedule a workqueue to send gratituous packet through NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS. This feature is negotiated through b