----- Original Message ----- > Hi, > Has anybody here work on this subject and update a newer patch? > Thanks in advance. > > Yongan Liu > >
Hi, I will continue work on this. Just FYI, based on the discussions on past version, I plan to send a v8 just for virtio-net. Thanks > -----bellows are words from patch v7 ---- > This series tries to let guest instead of qemu to send the gratuitous packets > after migration when guest is capable of doing this. This is needed since > it's > impossible for qemu to keep track of all configurations (e.g 802.1Q) and mac > addresses (more than one mac address may be used by guest). So qemu can't > build > gratuitous packets for all those configurations properly. The only solution > is > let guest driver who knew all needed information to do this. > > The series first introduces a new runstate which just tracks the state when > the > migration is finished and guest is about to start. And then we can just > trying > to notify the guest to send the GARP after changing from this state to > running. A model specific announcing method were also also introduced to let > each kinds of nic do its own notification. When there's no such method > register > for the nic, the old style of sending RARP were kept. And the last two > patches > implemented the virtio-net method of notification. > >
