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arp_notify: allow drivers to explicitly request a notification event.

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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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Ian Campbell 2010-05-26 00:09:42 +00:00 • committed by David S. Miller
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@ -1772,6 +1772,8 @@ extern void netif_carrier_on(struct net_device *dev);
extern void netif_carrier_off(struct net_device *dev);
extern void netif_notify_peers(struct net_device *dev);
/**
* netif_dormant_on - mark device as dormant.
* @dev: network device