arp_notify: allow drivers to explicitly request a notification event.
commitae6e10251a1a2dc6c2f2ccbe7f8a963d49623069
authorIan Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Wed, 26 May 2010 00:09:42 +0000 (26 00:09 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 13 Aug 2010 20:27:32 +0000 (13 13:27 -0700)
tree2bba4b1176a425bcf9c0a957067da8430ae52c8b
parent498e200440931f271820dc523dc29b843db300da
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