arp_notify: allow drivers to explicitly request a notification event.
commit9bfcb1f838ee0825bed898ff34aee2010763499a
authorIan Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Wed, 26 May 2010 00:09:42 +0000 (26 00:09 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 10 Aug 2010 18:09:15 +0000 (10 11:09 -0700)
treef57e26da3542cec6322c58d0acfe60118237b573
parent69e18d28ab99ba499e2afba725f16a22f7424a4e
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>
include/linux/netdevice.h
include/linux/notifier.h
net/ipv4/devinet.c
net/sched/sch_generic.c