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| author | Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> | 2011-02-11 07:44:16 +0000 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2011-02-14 17:47:15 -0800 |
| commit | d11327ad6695db8117c78d70611e71102ceec2ac (patch) | |
| tree | 02d76a5825c357d0383268d9502c886abc8c9987 /CREDITS | |
| parent | 0550769bb7f364fb9aeeb9412229fb7790ee79c4 (diff) | |
arp_notify: unconditionally send gratuitous ARP for NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS.
NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEER is an explicit request by the driver to send a link
notification while NETDEV_UP/NETDEV_CHANGEADDR generate link
notifications as a sort of side effect.
In the later cases the sysctl option is present because link
notification events can have undesired effects e.g. if the link is
flapping. I don't think this applies in the case of an explicit
request from a driver.
This patch makes NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEER unconditional, if preferred we
could add a new sysctl for this case which defaults to on.
This change causes Xen post-migration ARP notifications (which cause
switches to relearn their MAC tables etc) to be sent by default.
Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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