[dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/4 for 2.3] vhost-user live migration support

[Peter Xu]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 04:07:57PM +0100, Thibaut Collet wrote:
> After a migration, to avoid netwotk outage, all interfaces of the guest
> must send a packet to update switches mapping (ideally a GARP).
> As some interfaces do not do it QEMU does it in behalf of the guest by
> sending a RARP (his RARP is not forged by the guest but by QEMU). This is
> the qemu_self_announce purpose that "spoofs" a RARP to all backend of guest
> ethernet interfaces. For vhost-user backend, QEMU can not do it directly
> and asks to the vhost-user backend to do it with the VHOST_USER_SEND_RARP
> request that contains the MAC address of the guest interface.
> 
> Thibaut.

Hi, Thibaut,

Thanks for the explaination.

Two more questions:

1. if vhost-user backend (or say, DPDK) supports GUEST_ANNOUNCE, and
   send another RARP (or say, GARP, I will use RARP as example),
   then there will be two RARP later on the line, right? (since the
   QEMU one is sent unconditionally from qemu_announce_self).

2. if the only thing vhost-user backend is to send another same RARP
   when got SEND_RARP request, why would it bother if QEMU will
   unconditionally send one? (or say, I still do not know why we
   need this SEND_RARP request, if the vhost-user backend is going
   to do the same thing again as QEMU already does)

Thanks in advance.
Peter