Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Make netdev_del delete the netdev even when it's in use

[Anthony Liguori]

On 06/11/2010 07:21 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> To hot-unplug guest and host part of a network device, you do:
>
>      device_del NIC-ID
>      netdev_del NETDEV-ID
>
> For PCI devices, device_del merely tells ACPI to unplug the device.
> The device goes away for real only after the guest processed the ACPI
> unplug event.
>
> You have to wait until then (e.g. by polling info pci) before you can
> unplug the netdev.  Not good.
>
> Fix by removing the "in use" check from do_netdev_del().  Deleting a
> netdev while it's in use is safe; packets simply get routed to the bit
> bucket.
>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster<address@hidden>
>    

Applied.  Thanks.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori
> ---
> I can add a force option instead, if you think that's better.
>
>   net.c |    4 ----
>   1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net.c b/net.c
> index 4cb93ed..0703698 100644
> --- a/net.c
> +++ b/net.c
> @@ -1221,10 +1221,6 @@ int do_netdev_del(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict, 
> QObject **ret_data)
>           qerror_report(QERR_DEVICE_NOT_FOUND, id);
>           return -1;
>       }
> -    if (vc->peer) {
> -        qerror_report(QERR_DEVICE_IN_USE, id);
> -        return -1;
> -    }
>       qemu_del_vlan_client(vc);
>       qemu_opts_del(qemu_opts_find(&qemu_netdev_opts, id));
>       return 0;
>