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Message-ID: <14104.1642384931@famine>
Date:   Sun, 16 Jan 2022 18:02:11 -0800
From:   Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@...onical.com>
To:     =?UTF-8?B?5a2Z5a6I6ZGr?= 
        <sunshouxin@...natelecom.cn>
cc:     vfalico@...il.com, andy@...yhouse.net, davem@...emloft.net,
        kuba@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, huyd12@...natelecom.cn
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH v5] net: bonding: Add support for IPV6 ns/na to balance-alb/balance-tlb mode

孙守鑫 <sunshouxin@...natelecom.cn> wrote:
[...]
>> 	As for the RLB functionality (i.e., the balance-alb remote to
>> local load balance), that is not implemented for IPv6 and this patch is
>> not providing an implementation of the RLB logic for IPv6, so I'm
>> unclear why you expect it to work, or what the "mismatch Bond6
>> specification" is.
>>
>> 	To be clear, implementing RLB for IPv6 would include what this
>> patch is doing (adjusting the content of NS/NA datagrams), but a
>> complete implementation requires additional logic that isn't here, e.g.,
>> adding IPv6 logic to the RLB rebalance code, connecting NS/NA
>> manipulation to rlb_choose_channel(), and likely other things that don't
>> come immediately to mind.
>>
>> 	In summary, it sounds to me like the actual bug originally
>> reported (with the now-omitted diagram) would be resolved by assigning
>> NS/NA datagrams to the curr_active_slave, and supporting RLB for IPv6 is
>> a larger project than what's provided by this patch.  Am I understanding
>> correctly?
>
>
>Thanks your comment.
>For the simplify, I would like to resolve the inconsistent mac at first by
>assigning NS/NA datagrams to the curr_active_slave by V6 soon.
>Supporting RLB for IPv6, it looks like hard a bit and I wonder if we can
>resolve it in another patch?
>any comments?

	I'm in agreement that the first step should be solving the
immediate TLB NS/NA problem, and the larger task of implementing RLB for
IPv6 can be done separately.

	-J

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	-Jay Vosburgh, jay.vosburgh@...onical.com

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