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virtio-net: send gratuitous packets when needed

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As hypervior does not have the knowledge of guest network configuration, it's
better to ask guest to send gratuitous packets when needed.

This patch implements VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE feature: hypervisor would
notice the guest when it thinks it's time for guest to announce the link
presnece. Guest tests VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE bit during config change interrupt
and woule send gratuitous packets through netif_notify_peers() and ack the
notification through ctrl vq.

We need to make sure the atomicy of read and ack in guest otherwise we may ack
more times than being notified. This is done through handling the whole config
change interrupt in an non-reentrant workqueue.

Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Jason Wang
2012-04-11 20:43:52 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent 8831a3f2c9
commit 586d17c5a0
2 changed files with 73 additions and 5 deletions
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@@ -49,8 +49,11 @@
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX 18 /* Control channel RX mode support */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VLAN 19 /* Control channel VLAN filtering */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_RX_EXTRA 20 /* Extra RX mode control support */
#define VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE 21 /* Guest can announce device on the
* network */
#define VIRTIO_NET_S_LINK_UP 1 /* Link is up */
#define VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE 2 /* Announcement is needed */
struct virtio_net_config {
/* The config defining mac address (if VIRTIO_NET_F_MAC) */
@@ -152,4 +155,15 @@ struct virtio_net_ctrl_mac {
#define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN_ADD 0
#define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_VLAN_DEL 1
/*
* Control link announce acknowledgement
*
* The command VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_ANNOUNCE_ACK is used to indicate that
* driver has recevied the notification; device would clear the
* VIRTIO_NET_S_ANNOUNCE bit in the status field after it receives
* this command.
*/
#define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_ANNOUNCE 3
#define VIRTIO_NET_CTRL_ANNOUNCE_ACK 0
#endif /* _LINUX_VIRTIO_NET_H */