Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6] net: add support of mac-programming over macvtap in QEMU side

[Luiz Capitulino]

On Mon, 17 Jun 2013 17:42:50 +0300
"Michael S. Tsirkin" <address@hidden> wrote:

> > The 1000ms I talked about is *not* what the guest will see. If there are
> > events pending, the throttle API just queues the event and returns right
> > away. I'd even _guess_ that this is faster then emitting the event.
> 
> If the filter is not updated for 1000ms then that is guest visible:
> it is not getting packets with the new MAC.

Let me understand this better: the filter is going to be updated by
libvirt, is that correctly?

If this is right, then I can understand where you came from, but how
can we possibly control how long it will take for libvirt to take
action?