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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 13:27:32 -0700 |
| commit | ae6e10251a1a2dc6c2f2ccbe7f8a963d49623069 (patch) | |
| tree | 2bba4b1176a425bcf9c0a957067da8430ae52c8b /include | |
| parent | 498e200440931f271820dc523dc29b843db300da (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 fa8b47637997..473799698bc8 100644 --- a/include/linux/netdevice.h +++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h @@ -1661,6 +1661,8 @@ 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 fee6c2f68075..45477f24f1da 100644 --- a/include/linux/notifier.h +++ b/include/linux/notifier.h @@ -203,6 +203,7 @@ static inline int notifier_to_errno(int ret) #define NETDEV_BONDING_NEWTYPE 0x000F #define NETDEV_POST_INIT 0x0010 #define NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH 0x0011 +#define NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS 0x0012 #define SYS_DOWN 0x0001 /* Notify of system down */ #define SYS_RESTART SYS_DOWN |