netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: link_watch: mark bonding link events urgent

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Message-ID: <20180122163301.GD2012@nanopsycho>
Date:   Mon, 22 Jan 2018 17:33:01 +0100
From:   Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:     Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com, dsa@...ulusnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: link_watch: mark bonding link events
 urgent

Mon, Jan 22, 2018 at 05:07:19PM CET, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com wrote:
>From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
>
>It takes 1sec for bond link down notification to hit user-space
>when all slaves of the bond go down. 1sec is too long for
>protocol daemons in user-space relying on bond notification
>to recover (eg: multichassis lag implementations in user-space).
>Since the link event code already marks team device port link events
> as urgent, this patch moves the code to cover all lag ports and master.
>
>Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...lanox.com>