[libvirt] [PATCH] qemu: handle multicast overflow on macvtap for NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2018 at 10:04:56AM -0500, Jason Baron wrote:
> Guest network devices can set 'overflow' when there are a number of multicast
> ips configured. For virtio_net, the limit is only 64. In this case, the list
> of mac addresses is empty and the 'overflow' condition is set. Thus, the guest
> will currently receive no multicast traffic in this state.
> 
> When 'overflow' is set in the guest, let's turn this into ALLMULTI on the host.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron at akamai.com>

Good catch, thanks!

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst at redhat.com>


> ---
>  src/qemu/qemu_driver.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> index 7fb9102..ea36db8 100644
> --- a/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_driver.c
> @@ -4443,11 +4443,11 @@ static void
>  syncNicRxFilterMultiMode(char *ifname, virNetDevRxFilterPtr guestFilter,
>                           virNetDevRxFilterPtr hostFilter)
>  {
> -    if (hostFilter->multicast.mode != guestFilter->multicast.mode) {
> +    if (hostFilter->multicast.mode != guestFilter->multicast.mode ||
> +        guestFilter->multicast.overflow) {
>          switch (guestFilter->multicast.mode) {
>              case VIR_NETDEV_RX_FILTER_MODE_ALL:
>                  if (virNetDevSetRcvAllMulti(ifname, true)) {
> -
>                      VIR_WARN("Couldn't set allmulticast flag to 'on' for "
>                               "device %s while responding to "
>                               "NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED", ifname);
> @@ -4455,17 +4455,29 @@ syncNicRxFilterMultiMode(char *ifname, virNetDevRxFilterPtr guestFilter,
>                  break;
>  
>              case VIR_NETDEV_RX_FILTER_MODE_NORMAL:
> -                if (virNetDevSetRcvMulti(ifname, true)) {
> +                if (guestFilter->multicast.overflow &&
> +                    (hostFilter->multicast.mode == VIR_NETDEV_RX_FILTER_MODE_ALL)) {
> +                    break;
> +                }
>  
> +                if (virNetDevSetRcvMulti(ifname, true)) {
>                      VIR_WARN("Couldn't set multicast flag to 'on' for "
>                               "device %s while responding to "
>                               "NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED", ifname);
>                  }
>  
> -                if (virNetDevSetRcvAllMulti(ifname, false)) {
> -                    VIR_WARN("Couldn't set allmulticast flag to 'off' for "
> -                             "device %s while responding to "
> -                             "NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED", ifname);
> +                if (guestFilter->multicast.overflow == true) {
> +                    if (virNetDevSetRcvAllMulti(ifname, true)) {
> +                        VIR_WARN("Couldn't set allmulticast flag to 'on' for "
> +                                 "device %s while responding to "
> +                                 "NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED", ifname);
> +                    }
> +                } else {
> +                    if (virNetDevSetRcvAllMulti(ifname, false)) {
> +                         VIR_WARN("Couldn't set allmulticast flag to 'off' for "
> +                                  "device %s while responding to "
> +                                  "NIC_RX_FILTER_CHANGED", ifname);
> +                    }
>                  }
>                  break;
>  
> -- 
> 2.7.4