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| author | Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> | 2010-05-26 00:09:42 +0000 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2010-08-13 13:19:49 -0700 |
| commit | ac33b999caed81edf848948cde358920dff3f31f (patch) | |
| tree | aa5768e332f2c459ac4ec3b579feb990e1e523ae /include | |
| parent | bdded112e09f6c94084fe6c69ebbfb561650a046 (diff) | |
arp_notify: allow drivers to explicitly request a notification event.
commit 06c4648d46d1b757d6b9591a86810be79818b60c upstream.
Currently such notifications are only generated when the device comes up or the
address changes. However one use case for these notifications is to enable
faster network recovery after a virtual machine migration (by causing switches
to relearn their MAC tables). A migration appears to the network stack as a
temporary loss of carrier and therefore does not trigger either of the current
conditions. Rather than adding carrier up as a trigger (which can cause issues
when interfaces a flapping) simply add an interface which the driver can use
to explicitly trigger the notification.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/netdevice.h | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/notifier.h | 1 |
2 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h index 812a5f3c2abe..ec12f8c24770 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -1560,6 +1560,8 @@ extern void netif_carrier_on(struct net_device *dev); extern void netif_carrier_off(struct net_device *dev); +extern void netif_notify_peers(struct net_device *dev); + /** * netif_dormant_on - mark device as dormant. * @dev: network device diff --git a/include/linux/notifier.h b/include/linux/notifier.h index 44428d247dbe..b1302a6bdd22 100644 --- a/include/linux/notifier.h +++ b/include/linux/notifier.h @@ -201,6 +201,7 @@ static inline int notifier_to_errno(int ret) #define NETDEV_PRE_UP 0x000D #define NETDEV_BONDING_OLDTYPE 0x000E #define NETDEV_BONDING_NEWTYPE 0x000F +#define NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS 0x0012 #define SYS_DOWN 0x0001 /* Notify of system down */ #define SYS_RESTART SYS_DOWN |