netdev - RE: [PATCH 1/1] bonding: Use notifiers for slave link state detection

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Message-ID: <87618083B2453E4A8714035B62D679925051E55D@FMSMSX105.amr.corp.intel.com>
Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 2016 16:37:11 +0000
From:	"Tantilov, Emil S" <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>
To:	"zyjzyj2000@...il.com" <zyjzyj2000@...il.com>,
	"mkubecek@...e.cz" <mkubecek@...e.cz>,
	"vfalico@...il.com" <vfalico@...il.com>,
	"gospo@...ulusnetworks.com" <gospo@...ulusnetworks.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Shteinbock, Boris (Wind River)" <boris.shteinbock@...driver.com>,
	"jay.vosburgh@...onical.com" <jay.vosburgh@...onical.com>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/1] bonding: Use notifiers for slave link state
 detection

>-----Original Message-----
>From: zyjzyj2000@...il.com [mailto:zyjzyj2000@...il.com]
>Sent: Thursday, January 21, 2016 2:16 AM
>To: zyjzyj2000@...il.com; mkubecek@...e.cz; vfalico@...il.com;
>gospo@...ulusnetworks.com; netdev@...r.kernel.org; Shteinbock, Boris (Wind
>River); jay.vosburgh@...onical.com; Tantilov, Emil S
>Subject: [PATCH 1/1] bonding: Use notifiers for slave link state detection
>
>From: Zhu Yanjun <zyjzyj2000@...il.com>
>
>Bonding will utilize notifier callbacks to detect slave
>link state changes. It is intended to be used with miimon
>set to zero, and does not support the updelay or downdelay
>options to bonding.
>
>Because of link flap from the slave interface, if the notifier
>is NETDEV_UP while the actual link state is down, it is not
>necessary to continue.
>
>Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@...onical.com>
>Tested-by: Tantilov, Emil S <emil.s.tantilov@...el.com>
>Signed-off-by: Zhu Yanjun <zyjzyj2000@...il.com>
>---
> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |  317 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
>----
> 1 file changed, 170 insertions(+), 147 deletions(-)

Just for the record - this is not a patch that I have tested.

I did run tests with the patch Jay Vosburgh submitted for introducing
notifiers and that is handled in a separate thread.

Why do you keep re-sending Jay's patches?

Thanks,
Emil