netdev - Re: how to handle bonding failover when using a bridge over the bond?

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Message-ID: <kfi5k6$1mq$1@ger.gmane.org>
Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2013 08:01:10 +0000 (UTC)
From:	Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: how to handle bonding failover when using a bridge over the bond?

On Wed, 13 Feb 2013 at 00:30 GMT, Chris Friesen <chris.friesen@...band.com> wrote:
> On 02/12/2013 06:02 PM, Jay Vosburgh wrote:
>> 	The bond doesn't track all of the MACs that go through it, but
>> the bridge presumably does, and could respond to the FAILOVER notifier
>> with something to notify the switch that the port assignments for the
>> various MACs have changed.
>
> That would probably make sense.  I've added the bridging folks, maybe 
> they'll have a suggestion how this sort of thing should be handled.
>

It is already handled. When BONDING_FAILOVER is triggered and the MAC has
been changed, NETDEV_CHANGEADDR is issued too, then bridge will capture
it and update its fdb:

        case NETDEV_CHANGEADDR:
                spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
                br_fdb_changeaddr(p, dev->dev_addr);
                changed_addr = br_stp_recalculate_bridge_id(br);
                spin_unlock_bh(&br->lock);

                if (changed_addr)
                        call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGEADDR, br->dev);

                break;
		

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