netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] Fix support for macvlan devices on top bonding

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Date:	Wed, 04 Jun 2014 15:14:38 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	vyasevic@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, j.vosburgh@...il.com, vfalico@...il.com,
	andy@...yhouse.net, kaber@...sh.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 0/3] Fix support for macvlan devices on top
 bonding

From: Vlad Yasevich <vyasevic@...hat.com>
Date: Wed,  4 Jun 2014 16:23:35 -0400

> Currently, macvlan devices do not work well over bond interfaces.
> Everything works well, untill a failover is triggered in the bond
> device and then macvlan becomes unreachble untill arp entries
> are flushed.   This series adds needed functionality to
> handle correct notifications and update switches with mac addresses
> assigned to macvlans.
> 
> The first patch simply addes IFF_UNICAST_FLT flag to bonds since they
> already correctly manage the unicast filter list of the slaves, so
> we might as well prevent the bond from needlessly going into promiscuous
> mode.
> 
> The second patch adds notifier handler to macvlan to trigger correct
> ARP notifications.
> 
> The third patch adds handling for TLB and RLB modes that use special
> ETH_P_LOOPBACK type packets to teach switch about mac addresses.
> It also allow ARPs for the macvlan mac addresses to be handled by
> RLB mode.

Series applied, thanks Vlad.
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