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authorHaiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>2011-02-02 13:42:58 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2011-02-17 15:36:52 -0800
commit47aab12693ef835f80c1d49f0f24b062dcac629b (patch)
tree3de61db90c0be36fb8668417544160aef280fde7 /drivers
parentdf8ce7c6f9bbc168c52a9e5412b0dd3e31fb29d6 (diff)
staging: hv: Enable sending GARP packet after live migration
commit 7c161d0b900ea9bd9fc5ea5d3fa9916e9eb0dd88 upstream. The hv_netvsc gets RNDIS_STATUS_MEDIA_CONNECT event after the VM is live migrated. Adding call to netif_notify_peers() for this event to send GARP (Gratuitous ARP) to notify network peers. Otherwise, the VM's network connection may stop after a live migration. This patch should also be applied to stable kernel 2.6.32 and later. Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
index 547261d2537c..a5101e3f8050 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/hv/netvsc_drv.c
@@ -296,6 +296,7 @@ static void netvsc_linkstatus_callback(struct hv_device *device_obj,
if (status == 1) {
netif_carrier_on(net);
netif_wake_queue(net);
+ netif_notify_peers(net);
} else {
netif_carrier_off(net);
netif_stop_queue(net);