netdev - Re: [PATCH 1/3] bonding: allow previous slave to be used when re-balancing traffic on tlb/alb interfaces

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Date:	Tue, 6 Oct 2009 12:27:31 -0400
From:	Andy Gospodarek <andy@...yhouse.net>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	fubar@...ibm.com, andy@...yhouse.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] bonding: allow previous slave to be used when
	re-balancing traffic on tlb/alb interfaces

On Mon, Oct 05, 2009 at 03:43:33AM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@...ibm.com>
> Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:13:57 -0700
> 
> > 	Andy, I've been doing some further testing with this patch, and
> > I'm seeing some panics that I believe are related to this patch.  It
> > appears that the last_slave isn't cleared (or isn't cleared soon enough)
> > when a slave is released, and concurrent transmit activity is getting
> > into alb_get_best_slave() and finding a last_slave pointer that is stale
> > (points to no slave currently on the slave list).
> 
> I'm holding off on these 3 bonding patches until this is resolved.
> --

Sounds good, Dave.

I was hoping to get this resolved yesterday, but got distracted.  I will
have some time today.

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