netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] net/ipv6: Block IPv6 addrconf on team ports

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Date:   Thu, 25 Oct 2018 18:08:06 -0400
From:   Chas Williams <3chas3@...il.com>
To:     Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, j.vosburgh@...il.com,
        vfalico@...il.com, andy@...yhouse.net, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru,
        yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net/ipv6: Block IPv6 addrconf on team ports



On 10/25/2018 05:10 PM, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 11:02:27PM CEST, 3chas3@...il.com wrote:
>> netif_is_lag_port should be used to identify link aggregation ports.
>> For this to work, we need to reorganize the bonding and team drivers
>> so that the necessary flags are set before dev_open is called.
>>
>> commit 31e77c93e432 ("sched/fair: Update blocked load when newly idle")
>> made this decision originally based on the IFF_SLAVE flag which isn't
>> used by the team driver.  Note, we do need to retain the IFF_SLAVE
>> check for the eql driver.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Chas Williams <3chas3@...il.com>
>> ---
>> drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 4 ++--
>> drivers/net/team/team.c         | 7 +++++--
>> net/ipv6/addrconf.c             | 2 +-
> 
> Subject talks about "team" yet you modify bond and team. Confusing..

The subject discusses what I want to do. The body of the message
covers how I had to do it. The behavior of bonding with respect to
addrconf isn't changed but netif_is_lag_port is picky about the
flags it wants to see from bonding.  So some bonding changes are
necessary.