netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] net: bridge: add support for backup port

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Date:   Mon, 23 Jul 2018 09:32:45 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, roopa@...ulusnetworks.com,
        anuradhak@...ulusnetworks.com, wkok@...ulusnetworks.com,
        bridge@...ts.linux-foundation.org, stephen@...workplumber.org,
        makita.toshiaki@....ntt.co.jp
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3 0/2] net: bridge: add support for backup
 port

From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2018 11:16:57 +0300

> This set introduces a new bridge port option that allows any port to have
> any other port (in the same bridge of course) as its backup and traffic
> will be forwarded to the backup port when the primary goes down. This is
> mainly used in MLAG and EVPN setups where we have peerlink path which is
> a backup of many (or even all) ports and is a participating bridge port
> itself. There's more detailed information in patch 02. Patch 01 just
> prepares the port sysfs code for options that take raw value. The main
> issues that this set solves are scalability and fallback latency.
 ...

Series applied, thanks Nikolay.