Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH net-next v4] xen-netfront: delay gARP until backend switches to Connected

["Jan Beulich" <JBeulich@xxxxxxxx>]

>>> On 02.01.12 at 17:54, Laszlo Ersek <lersek@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 01/02/12 15:50, Jan Beulich wrote:
> 
>> Wouldn't all of this equally apply to the 2.6.18 kernel and its derivates?
> 
> I haven't checked the linux-2.6.18-xen.hg source at all before because 
> the (first) affected RHEL-5 netfront patch 
> ("linux-2.6-xen-xennet-coordinate-ARP-with-backend-network-status.patch") 
> states,
> 
>      The frontend part of the patch is not applicable in upstream
>      Linux as there is no gratuitous ARP packet support there at all.
>      While the backend upstream is dead as far as I know.  So this
>      is RHEL5-specific.
> 
> Regarding the RHEL-5 host side,
> 
>  >> (1) ensure that the backend only moves to Connected xenbus state
>  >> after its hotplug scripts completed, ie. the netback interface got
>  >> added to the bridge; and
> 
>  >> Sub-condition (1) is already satisfied by commit f942dc2552b8 in
>  >> Linus' tree, based on commit 6b0b80ca7165 from [1].
> 
>  >> [1] 
> git://xenbits.xen.org/people/ianc/linux-2.6.git#upstream/dom0/backend/netback-
> history
> 
> I figured the backend change is "already upstream". (Actually where I 
> took it from was 43223efd9bfd in Jeremy's tree.)
> 
> So, what do you want me to do? I think I could get the frontend patch 
> right without compiling linux-2.6.18-xen.hg. The backend is more messy 
> however.

I've got both backend and frontend changes ready for that tree - all I
was really after was some double checking that both changes logically
apply to that tree.

Jan


_______________________________________________
Xen-devel mailing list
Xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
http://lists.xensource.com/xen-devel