arp_notify: allow drivers to explicitly request a notification event.
authorIan Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>
Wed, 26 May 2010 00:09:42 +0000 (00:09 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 31 May 2010 07:27:44 +0000 (00:27 -0700)
commit06c4648d46d1b757d6b9591a86810be79818b60c
tree96f6e09a23071157d5b446853294b4564155ffee
parent3f8dc2362fd43a0adee2f6f05bf1ac4d619675b6
arp_notify: allow drivers to explicitly request a notification event.

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
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
include/linux/netdevice.h
include/linux/notifier.h
net/ipv4/devinet.c
net/sched/sch_generic.c