Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

2006-05-09 Thread Christian Limpach
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:55:33PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Hi Chris: Chris Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +/** Send a packet on a net device to encourage switches to learn the + * MAC. We send a fake ARP request. + * + * @param dev device + * @return 0 on success, error code

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

2006-05-09 Thread Christian Limpach
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:01:05PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Christian Limpach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There's at least two reasons why having it in the driver is preferable: - synchronizing sending the fake ARP request with when the device is operational -- you really want to make

Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

2006-05-09 Thread Christian Limpach
On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:26:03PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: Christian Limpach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possibly having to page in the process and switching to it would add to the live migration time. More importantly, having to install an additional program in the guest is certainly