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authorIan Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>2010-05-26 00:09:42 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-05-31 00:27:44 -0700
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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>
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diff --git a/include/linux/notifier.h b/include/linux/notifier.h
index 540703b..22c2abb 100644
--- a/include/linux/notifier.h
+++ b/include/linux/notifier.h
@@ -210,6 +210,7 @@ static inline int notifier_to_errno(int ret)
#define NETDEV_POST_INIT 0x0010
#define NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH 0x0011
#define NETDEV_BONDING_DESLAVE 0x0012
+#define NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS 0x0012
#define SYS_DOWN 0x0001 /* Notify of system down */
#define SYS_RESTART SYS_DOWN
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