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| author | rusty <rusty@0c8fb4dd-22a2-4bb5-bc14-6c75a5f43652> | 2014-02-19 01:23:01 +0000 |
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| committer | rusty <rusty@0c8fb4dd-22a2-4bb5-bc14-6c75a5f43652> | 2014-02-19 01:23:01 +0000 |
| commit | 65c4282c789c43ec7a6fb600afb5f1df0aa67146 (patch) | |
| tree | efbdc0686c9a5a5608209fb6d232b37605e98f71 | |
| parent | 23b092a423decab7435a261e46855dad72c01aff (diff) | |
Gratuitous Packet Sending: clarify wording.
The device can ask, not the driver.
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@au1.ibm.com>
git-svn-id: https://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/svn/virtio@251 0c8fb4dd-22a2-4bb5-bc14-6c75a5f43652
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/content.tex b/content.tex index e7f581b..2928eb8 100644 --- a/content.tex +++ b/content.tex @@ -2936,7 +2936,7 @@ native endian of the guest rather than (necessarily) little-endian. \paragraph{Gratuitous Packet Sending}\label{sec:Device Types / Network Device / Device Operation / Control Virtqueue / Gratuitous Packet Sending} If the driver negotiates the VIRTIO_NET_F_GUEST_ANNOUNCE (depends -on VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ), it can ask the driver to send gratuitous +on VIRTIO_NET_F_CTRL_VQ), the device can ask the driver to send gratuitous packets; this is usually done after the guest has been physically migrated, and needs to announce its presence on the new network links. (As hypervisor does not have the knowledge of guest |