Re: [Xen-devel] [RFC PATCH 34/35] Add the Xen virtual network device driver.

* David Boutcher ([email protected]) wrote:
> Then make a generic solution.  VMWare supports migration, the Power 
> virtualization will get around to it eventually.  All will need something
> similar.  So either make a common user-land tool, or (if you insist on
> incorrectly driving this into the kernel) add some kind of common hook to
> the TCP/IP stack.

I'm not that fond of the in-kernel solution either.  HA failover does
this stuff in userspace, and has the same gratuitous arp requirements.
Perhaps we should see some numbers showing the migration latency
introduced.  At the very least, it's easy to factor out as suggested.

thanks,
-chris
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