linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] net: bonding: Fix transmit load balancing in balance-alb mode

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Date:   Thu, 20 Jul 2017 15:35:04 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     tatsu@...jp.nec.com
Cc:     j.vosburgh@...il.com, vfalico@...il.com, andy@...yhouse.net,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: bonding: Fix transmit load balancing in
 balance-alb mode

From: Kosuke Tatsukawa <tatsu@...jp.nec.com>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 05:20:40 +0000

> balance-alb mode used to have transmit dynamic load balancing feature
> enabled by default.  However, transmit dynamic load balancing no longer
> works in balance-alb after commit 8b426dc54cf4 ("bonding: remove
> hardcoded value").
> 
> Both balance-tlb and balance-alb use the function bond_do_alb_xmit() to
> send packets.  This function uses the parameter tlb_dynamic_lb.
> tlb_dynamic_lb used to have the default value of 1 for balance-alb, but
> now the value is set to 0 except in balance-tlb.
> 
> Re-enable transmit dyanmic load balancing by initializing tlb_dynamic_lb
> for balance-alb similar to balance-tlb.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kosuke Tatsukawa <tatsu@...jp.nec.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

Andy, thanks for the Fixes: tag.