netdev - Re: [PATCH] bonding: ignore updelay param when there is no active slave

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Date:	Mon, 27 Apr 2009 02:58:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jpirko@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, fubar@...ibm.com,
	bonding-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: ignore updelay param when there is no active
 slave

From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Apr 2009 15:57:29 +0200

> Pointed out by Sean E. Millichamp.
> 
> Quote from Documentation/networking/bonding.txt:
> "Note that when a bonding interface has no active links, the
> driver will immediately reuse the first link that goes up, even if the
> updelay parameter has been specified (the updelay is ignored in this
> case).  If there are slave interfaces waiting for the updelay timeout
> to expire, the interface that first went into that state will be
> immediately reused.  This reduces down time of the network if the
> value of updelay has been overestimated, and since this occurs only in
> cases with no connectivity, there is no additional penalty for
> ignoring the updelay."
> 
> This patch actually changes the behaviour in this way.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@...hat.com>

Applied to net-next-2.6
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