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

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Message-Id: <20180123.194354.1714709617379610153.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:   Tue, 23 Jan 2018 19:43:54 -0500 (EST)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     roopa@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com,
        dsa@...ulusnetworks.com, jiri@...nulli.us
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2] net: link_watch: mark bonding link events
 urgent

From: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 08:07:19 -0800

> 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>
> ---
> v2: use netif_is_lag_* api's as suggested by jiri

Applied, thanks Roopa.