> -Original Message-
> From: Wei Liu [mailto:wei.l...@citrix.com]
> Sent: 02 February 2016 11:09
> To: Paul Durrant
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; xen-de...@lists.xenproject.org; Ian Campbell;
> Wei Liu
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1] xen-netback: implement dynami
On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 02:40:53PM +, Paul Durrant wrote:
[...]
> +static int xen_register_mcast_ctrl_watch(struct xenbus_device *dev,
> + struct xenvif *vif)
> +{
> + int err = 0;
> + char *node;
> + unsigned maxlen = strlen(dev->otherend) +
> +
My recent patch to the Xen Project documents a protocol for 'dynamic
multicast control' in netif.h. This extends the previous multicast control
protocol to not require a shared ring reconnection to turn the feature off.
Instead the backend watches the "request-multicast-control" key in xenstore
and