arp_notify: unconditionally send gratuitous ARP for NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS.
commit d11327ad upstream. 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> [reported to solve hyperv live migration problem - gkh] Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com> Cc: Mike Surcouf <mike@surcouf.co.uk> Cc: Hank Janssen <hjanssen@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by:
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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