On Thu, 2012-08-16 at 14:44 +0800, Jason Wang wrote: > We drop packet unconditionally when we fail to mirror it. This is not intended > in some cases. Consdier for kvm guest, we may mirror the traffic of the bridge > to a tap device used by a VM. When kernel fails to mirror the packet in > conditions such as when qemu crashes or stop polling the tap, it's hard for > the > management software to detect such condition and clean the the mirroring > before. This would lead all packets to the bridge to be dropped and break the > netowrk of other virtual machines. > > To solve the issue, the patch does not drop packets when kernel fails to > mirror > it, and only drop the redirected packets. > > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasow...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <j...@mojatatu.com> cheers, jamal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
