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2018-07-16bonding: Fix a typo in bonding.txtMasanari Iida
This patch fixes a spelling typo in bonding.txt Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-05-16Revert "bonding: allow carrier and link status to determine link state"Debabrata Banerjee
This reverts commit 1386c36b30388f46a95100924bfcae75160db715. We don't want to encourage drivers to not report carrier status correctly, therefore remove this commit. Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-05-16bonding: allow carrier and link status to determine link stateDebabrata Banerjee
In a mixed environment it may be difficult to tell if your hardware support carrier, if it does not it can always report true. With a new use_carrier option of 2, we can check both carrier and link status sequentially, instead of one or the other Signed-off-by: Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2018-05-11net: doc: fix spelling mistake: "modrobe.d" -> "modprobe.d"Tonghao Zhang
Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <xiangxia.m.yue@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2017-10-07doc: Fix typo "8023.ad" in bonding documentationAxel Beckert
Should be "802.3ad" like everywhere else in the document. Signed-off-by: Axel Beckert <abe@deuxchevaux.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2016-05-04bonding: update documentation section after dev->trans_start removalFlorian Westphal
Drivers that use LLTX need to update trans_start of the netdev_queue. (Most drivers don't use LLTX; stack does this update if .ndo_start_xmit returned TX_OK). Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-11bonding: Implement user key part of port_key in an AD system.Mahesh Bandewar
The port key has three components - user-key, speed-part, and duplex-part. The LSBit is for the duplex-part, next 5 bits are for the speed while the remaining 10 bits are the user defined key bits. Get these 10 bits from the user-space (through the SysFs interface) and use it to form the admin port-key. Allowed range for the user-key is 0 - 1023 (10 bits). If it is not provided then use zero for the user-key-bits (default). It can set using following example code - # modprobe bonding mode=4 # usr_port_key=$(( RANDOM & 0x3FF )) # echo $usr_port_key > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/ad_user_port_key # echo +eth1 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves ... # ip link set bond0 up Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> [jt: * fixed up style issues reported by checkpatch * fixed up context from change in ad_actor_sys_prio patch] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-11bonding: Allow userspace to set actors' macaddr in an AD-system.Mahesh Bandewar
In an AD system, the communication between actor and partner is the business between these two entities. In the current setup anyone on the same L2 can "guess" the LACPDU contents and then possibly send the spoofed LACPDUs and trick the partner causing connectivity issues for the AD system. This patch allows to use a random mac-address obscuring it's identity making it harder for someone in the L2 is do the same thing. This patch allows user-space to choose the mac-address for the AD-system. This mac-address can not be NULL or a Multicast. If the mac-address is set from user-space; kernel will honor it and will not overwrite it. In the absence (value from user space); the logic will default to using the masters' mac as the mac-address for the AD-system. It can be set using example code below - # modprobe bonding mode=4 # sys_mac_addr=$(printf '%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x:%02x' \ $(( (RANDOM & 0xFE) | 0x02 )) \ $(( RANDOM & 0xFF )) \ $(( RANDOM & 0xFF )) \ $(( RANDOM & 0xFF )) \ $(( RANDOM & 0xFF )) \ $(( RANDOM & 0xFF ))) # echo $sys_mac_addr > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/ad_actor_system # echo +eth1 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves ... # ip link set bond0 up Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> [jt: fixed up style issues reported by checkpatch] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2015-05-11bonding: Allow userspace to set actors' system_priority in AD systemMahesh Bandewar
This patch allows user to randomize the system-priority in an ad-system. The allowed range is 1 - 0xFFFF while default value is 0xFFFF. If user does not specify this value, the system defaults to 0xFFFF, which is what it was before this patch. Following example code could set the value - # modprobe bonding mode=4 # sys_prio=$(( 1 + RANDOM + RANDOM )) # echo $sys_prio > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/ad_actor_sys_prio # echo +eth1 > /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/slaves ... # ip link set bond0 up Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> [jt: * fixed up style issues reported by checkpatch * changed how the default value is set in bond_check_params(), this makes the default consistent between what gets set for a new bond and what the default is claimed to be in the bonding options.] Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@cumulusnetworks.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-10-29tcp: allow for bigger reordering levelEric Dumazet
While testing upcoming Yaogong patch (converting out of order queue into an RB tree), I hit the max reordering level of linux TCP stack. Reordering level was limited to 127 for no good reason, and some network setups [1] can easily reach this limit and get limited throughput. Allow a new max limit of 300, and add a sysctl to allow admins to even allow bigger (or lower) values if needed. [1] Aggregation of links, per packet load balancing, fabrics not doing deep packet inspections, alternative TCP congestion modules... Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Cc: Yaogong Wang <wygivan@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-07-17bonding: update bonding.txt for Layer2 hash factorsJianhua Xie
Document the Layer 2 hash factors with packet type ID field. CC: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com> CC: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com> CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> CC: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Pan Jiafei <Jiafei.Pan@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Jianhua Xie <jianhua.xie@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-24bonding: Add tlb_dynamic_lb parameter for tlb modeMahesh Bandewar
The aggresive load balancing causes packet re-ordering as active flows are moved from a slave to another within the group. Sometime this aggresive lb is not necessary if the preference is for less re-ordering. This parameter if used with value "0" disables this dynamic flow shuffling minimizing packet re-ordering. Of course the side effect is that it has to live with the static load balancing that the hashing distribution provides. This impact is less severe if the correct xmit-hashing-policy is used for the tlb setup. The default value of the parameter is set to "1" mimicing the earlier behavior. Ran the netperf test with 200 stream for 1 min between two hosts with 4x1G trunk (xmit-lb mode with xmit-policy L3+4) before and after these changes. Following was the command used for those 200 instances - netperf -t TCP_RR -l 60 -s 5 -H <host> -- -r81920,81920 Transactions per second: Before change: 1,367.11 After change: 1,470.65 Change-Id: Ie3f75c77282cf602e83a6e833c6eb164e72a0990 Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-04-24bonding: Added bond_tlb_xmit() for tlb mode.Mahesh Bandewar
Re-organized the xmit function for the lb mode separating tlb xmit from the alb mode. This will enable use of the hashing policies like 802.3ad mode. Also extended use of xmit-hash-policy to tlb mode. Now the tlb-mode defaults to BOND_XMIT_POLICY_LAYER2 if the xmit policy module parameter is not set (just like 802.3ad, or Xor mode). Change-Id: I140257403d272df75f477b380207338d0f04963e Signed-off-by: Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-18bonding: document the new _arp options for arp_validateVeaceslav Falico
CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-02-18bonding: permit using arp_validate with non-ab modesVeaceslav Falico
Currently it's disabled because it's sometimes hard, in typical configs, to make it work - because of the nature how the loadbalance modes work - as it's hard to deliver valid arp replies to correct slaves by the switch. However we still can use arp_validation in loadbalance with several other configs, per example with arp_validate == 2 for backup with one broadcast domain, without the switch(es) doing any balancing - this way we'd be (a bit more) sure that the slave is up. So, enable it to let users decide which one works/suits them best. Also correct the mode limitation from BOND_OPT_ARP_VALIDATE. CC: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Acked-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2014-01-22bonding: update bonding.txt for primary descriptiondingtianhong
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-12-31bonding: update Documentation/networking/bonding.txt for option lp_intervaldingtianhong
Signed-off-by: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-11-07bonding: document the new packets_per_slave optionNikolay Aleksandrov
Add new documentation for the packets_per_slave option available for balance-rr mode. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-10-03bonding: document the new xmit policy modes and update the changed onesNikolay Aleksandrov
Add new documentation for encap2+3 and encap3+4, also update the formula for the old modes due to the changes. Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-09-15bonding: Make alb learning packet interval configurableNeil Horman
running bonding in ALB mode requires that learning packets be sent periodically, so that the switch knows where to send responding traffic. However, depending on switch configuration, there may not be any need to send traffic at the default rate of 3 packets per second, which represents little more than wasted data. Allow the ALB learning packet interval to be made configurable via sysfs Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Acked-by: Acked-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> CC: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> CC: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-25bonding: add an option to fail when any of arp_ip_target is inaccessibleVeaceslav Falico
Currently, we fail only when all of the ips in arp_ip_target are gone. However, in some situations we might need to fail if even one host from arp_ip_target becomes unavailable. All situations, obviously, rely on the idea that we need *completely* functional network, with all interfaces/addresses working correctly. One real world example might be: vlans on top on bond (hybrid port). If bond and vlans have ips assigned and we have their peers monitored via arp_ip_target - in case of switch misconfiguration (trunk/access port), slave driver malfunction or tagged/untagged traffic dropped on the way - we will be able to switch to another slave. Though any other configuration needs that if we need to have access to all arp_ip_targets. This patch adds this possibility by adding a new parameter - arp_all_targets (both as a module parameter and as a sysfs knob). It can be set to: 0 or any (the default) - which works exactly as it's working now - the slave is up if any of the arp_ip_targets are up. 1 or all - the slave is up if all of the arp_ip_targets are up. This parameter can be changed on the fly (via sysfs), and requires the mode to be active-backup and arp_validate to be enabled (it obeys the arp_validate config on which slaves to validate). Internally it's done through: 1) Add target_last_arp_rx[BOND_MAX_ARP_TARGETS] array to slave struct. It's an array of jiffies, meaning that slave->target_last_arp_rx[i] is the last time we've received arp from bond->params.arp_targets[i] on this slave. 2) If we successfully validate an arp from bond->params.arp_targets[i] in bond_validate_arp() - update the slave->target_last_arp_rx[i] with the current jiffies value. 3) When getting slave's last_rx via slave_last_rx(), we return the oldest time when we've received an arp from any address in bond->params.arp_targets[]. If the value of arp_all_targets == 0 - we still work the same way as before. Also, update the documentation to reflect the new parameter. v3->v4: Kill the forgotten rtnl_unlock(), rephrase the documentation part to be more clear, don't fail setting arp_all_targets if arp_validate is not set - it has no effect anyway but can be easier to set up. Also, print a warning if the last arp_ip_target is removed while the arp_interval is on, but not the arp_validate. v2->v3: Use _bh spinlock, remove useless rtnl_lock() and use jiffies for new arp_ip_target last arp, instead of slave_last_rx(). On bond_enslave(), use the same initialization value for target_last_arp_rx[] as is used for the default last_arp_rx, to avoid useless interface flaps. Also, instead of failing to remove the last arp_ip_target just print a warning - otherwise it might break existing scripts. v1->v2: Correctly handle adding/removing hosts in arp_ip_target - we need to shift/initialize all slave's target_last_arp_rx. Also, don't fail module loading on arp_all_targets misconfiguration, just disable it, and some minor style fixes. Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-06-25bonding: doc: some details on backup slave arp validationVeaceslav Falico
Add some details to bonding documentation on how backup slave arp validation works. Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2013-05-27bonding: remove ifenslave.c from kernel sourceCong Wang
As Stephen proposed: Since bonding supports configuration via iproute (netlink) and sysfs, I think it is time to purge the old ifenslave code out of Documentation/networking and update the documentation. Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-22bonding: support for IPv6 transmit hashingJohn Eaglesham
Currently the "bonding" driver does not support load balancing outgoing traffic in LACP mode for IPv6 traffic. IPv4 (and TCP or UDP over IPv4) are currently supported; this patch adds transmit hashing for IPv6 (and TCP or UDP over IPv6), bringing IPv6 up to par with IPv4 support in the bonding driver. In addition, bounds checking has been added to all transmit hashing functions. The algorithm chosen (xor'ing the bottom three quads of the source and destination addresses together, then xor'ing each byte of that result into the bottom byte, finally xor'ing with the last bytes of the MAC addresses) was selected after testing almost 400,000 unique IPv6 addresses harvested from server logs. This algorithm had the most even distribution for both big- and little-endian architectures while still using few instructions. Its behavior also attempts to closely match that of the IPv4 algorithm. The IPv6 flow label was intentionally not included in the hash as it appears to be unset in the vast majority of IPv6 traffic sampled, and the current algorithm not using the flow label already offers a very even distribution. Fragmented IPv6 packets are handled the same way as fragmented IPv4 packets, ie, they are not balanced based on layer 4 information. Additionally, IPv6 packets with intermediate headers are not balanced based on layer 4 information. In practice these intermediate headers are not common and this should not cause any problems, and the alternative (a packet-parsing loop and look-up table) seemed slow and complicated for little gain. Tested-by: John Eaglesham <linux@8192.net> Signed-off-by: John Eaglesham <linux@8192.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-07-22net-next: minor cleanups for bonding documentationRick Jones
The section titled "Configuring Bonding for Maximum Throughput" is actually section twelve not thirteen, and there are a couple of words spelled incorrectly. Signed-off-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Reviewed-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-03-30Documentation: replace install commands with softdepsLucas De Marchi
Install commands should not be used to specify soft dependencies among modules. When loading modules it's much better to have a softdep that modprobe knows what's being done than having to fork/exec another instance of modprobe to load the other module. By using a softdep user has also an option to remove the dependencies when removing the module (and if its refcount dropped to 0) Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-30Documentation: remove references to /etc/modprobe.confLucas De Marchi
Usage of /etc/modprobe.conf file was deprecated by module-init-tools and is no longer parsed by new kmod tool. References to this file are replaced in Documentation, comments and Kconfig according to the context. There are also some references to the old /etc/modules.conf from 2.4 kernels that are being removed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi> Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2011-12-26bonding: document undocumented active_slave sysfs entry.Nicolas de Pesloüan
v2, based on Jay's review. I kept the 'link must be up' part, because this is enforced in the code. Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-07bonding: document two undocumented options.Nicolas de Pesloüan
Commit 655f8919d549ad1872e24d826b6ce42530516d2e bonding: add min links parameter to 802.3ad and commit ebd8e4977a87cb81d93c62a9bff0102a9713722f bonding: add all_slaves_active parameter introduced new options to bonding, but didn't provide the documentation for those options. V2: add the default value for both options. V3: document the exact behavior of min_links default value. Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-08-01Documentation/bonding.txt: Update to 3.x version numbersJesper Juhl
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-05-25bonding: documentation and code cleanup for resend_igmpFlavio Leitner
Improves the documentation about how IGMP resend parameter works, fix two missing checks and coding style issues. Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-04-29ipv4, ipv6, bonding: Restore control over number of peer notificationsBen Hutchings
For backward compatibility, we should retain the module parameters and sysfs attributes to control the number of peer notifications (gratuitous ARPs and unsolicited NAs) sent after bonding failover. Also, it is possible for failover to take place even though the new active slave does not have link up, and in that case the peer notification should be deferred until it does. Change ipv4 and ipv6 so they do not automatically send peer notifications on bonding failover. Change the bonding driver to send separate NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS notifications when the link is up, as many times as requested. Since it does not directly control which protocols send notifications, make num_grat_arp and num_unsol_na aliases for a single parameter. Bump the bonding version number and update its documentation. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-03-31Fix common misspellingsLucas De Marchi
Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed. Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@profusion.mobi>
2011-03-14bonding: documentation update: mailing lists.Nicolas de Pesloüan
In commit a6c36ee677607b02d8ecc88e8a12785418b88107 ("bonding: change list contact to netdev@vger.kernel.org"), the mailing list for bonding developpement was changed from bonding-devel to netdev. Update the bonding documentation to reflect this change: - bonding-devel is used for usage discussions (despite the name). - netdev is used for developpement discussions. Also remove the reference to the sourceforge bonding page, which is deprecated. Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2011-01-25bonding: update documentation - alternate configuration.Nicolas de Pesloüan
The bonding documentation used to provide configuration details and examples for initscripts and sysconfig only. This patch describe the third possible configuration: /etc/network/interfaces. Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan <nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-10-05bonding: add retransmit membership reports tunableFlavio Leitner
Allow sysadmins to configure the number of multicast membership report sent on a link failure event. Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fleitner@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2010-08-04Merge branch 'for-next' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial * 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (48 commits) Documentation: update broken web addresses. fix comment typo "choosed" -> "chosen" hostap:hostap_hw.c Fix typo in comment Fix spelling contorller -> controller in comments Kconfig.debug: FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT: typo Faul -> Fault fs/Kconfig: Fix typo Userpace -> Userspace Removing dead MACH_U300_BS26 drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data fs/ocfs2: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data libfc: use ARRAY_SIZE scsi: bfa: use ARRAY_SIZE drm: i915: use ARRAY_SIZE drm: drm_edid: use ARRAY_SIZE synclink: use ARRAY_SIZE block: cciss: use ARRAY_SIZE comment typo fixes: charater => character fix comment typos concerning "challenge" arm: plat-spear: fix typo in kerneldoc reiserfs: typo comment fix update email address ...
2010-08-04Documentation: update broken web addresses.Justin P. Mattock
Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/* Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult, the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated. Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users. Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber <weber@corscience.de> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com> Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-06-05bonding: allow user-controlled output slave selectionAndy Gospodarek
v2: changed bonding module version, modified to apply on top of changes from previous patch in series, and updated documentation to elaborate on multiqueue awareness that now exists in bonding driver. This patch give the user the ability to control the output slave for round-robin and active-backup bonding. Similar functionality was discussed in the past, but Jay Vosburgh indicated he would rather see a feature like this added to existing modes rather than creating a completely new mode. Jay's thoughts as well as Neil's input surrounding some of the issues with the first implementation pushed us toward a design that relied on the queue_mapping rather than skb marks. Round-robin and active-backup modes were chosen as the first users of this slave selection as they seemed like the most logical choices when considering a multi-switch environment. Round-robin mode works without any modification, but active-backup does require inclusion of the first patch in this series and setting the 'all_slaves_active' flag. This will allow reception of unicast traffic on any of the backup interfaces. This was tested with IPv4-based filters as well as VLAN-based filters with good results. More information as well as a configuration example is available in the patch to Documentation/networking/bonding.txt. Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-10-07bonding: introduce primary_reselect optionJiri Pirko
In some cases there is not desirable to switch back to primary interface when it's link recovers and rather stay with currently active one. We need to avoid packetloss as much as we can in some cases. This is solved by introducing primary_reselect option. Note that enslaved primary slave is set as current active no matter what. Patch modified by Jay Vosburgh as follows: fixed bug in action after change of option setting via sysfs, revised the documentation update, and bumped the bonding version number. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-06-12trivial: Miscellaneous documentation typo fixesMatt LaPlante
Fix various typos in documentation txts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-04-13Bonding: fix zero address hole bug in arp_ip_target listBrian Haley
Fix a zero address hole bug in the bonding arp_ip_target list that was causing the bond to ignore ARP replies (bugz 13006). Instead of just setting the array entry to zero, we now copy any additional entries down one slot, putting the zero entry at the end. With this change we can now have all the loops that walk the array stop when they hit a zero since there will be no addresses after it. Changes are based in part on code fragment provided in kernel: bugzilla 13006: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13006 by Steve Howard <steve@astutenetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-06bonding: alternate agg selection policies for 802.3adJay Vosburgh
This patch implements alternative aggregator selection policies for 802.3ad. The existing policy, now termed "stable," selects the active aggregator by greatest bandwidth, and only reselects a new aggregator if the active aggregator is entirely disabled (no more ports or all ports down). This patch adds two new policies: bandwidth and count, selecting the active aggregator by total bandwidth (like the stable policy) or by the number of ports in the aggregator, respectively. These two policies also differ from the stable policy in that they will reselect the active aggregator when availability-related changes occur in the bond (e.g., link state change). This permits "gang failover" within 802.3ad, allowing redundant aggregators along parallel paths to always maintain the "best" aggregator as the active aggregator (rather than having to wait for the active to entirely fail). This patch also updates the driver version to 3.5.0. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-11-06bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failoverBrian Haley
This patch adds better IPv6 failover support for bonding devices, especially when in active-backup mode and there are only IPv6 addresses configured, as reported by Alex Sidorenko. - Creates a new file, net/drivers/bonding/bond_ipv6.c, for the IPv6-specific routines. Both regular bonds and VLANs over bonds are supported. - Adds a new tunable, num_unsol_na, to limit the number of unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements that are sent on a failover event. Default is 1. - Creates two new IPv6 neighbor discovery functions: ndisc_build_skb() ndisc_send_skb() These were required to support VLANs since we have to be able to add the VLAN id to the skb since ndisc_send_na() and friends shouldn't be asked to do this. These two routines are basically __ndisc_send() split into two pieces, in a slightly different order. - Updates Documentation/networking/bonding.txt and bumps the rev of bond support to 3.4.0. On failover, this new code will generate one packet: - An unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisement, which helps the switch learn that the address has moved to the new slave. Testing has shown that sending just the NA results in pretty good behavior when in active-back mode, I saw no lost ping packets for example. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-11-02bonding: update docs to correctly reflect arp_ip_target behaviorAndy Gospodarek
This documentation patch hopes to clarify that the '+' was only needed for Fedora 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 and 5.1. After that the IP addreses could be added as a comma separated list just like the module option. Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-07-26Documentation cleanup: trivial misspelling, punctuation, and grammar ↵Matt LaPlante
corrections. Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-18bonding: Allow setting max_bonds to zeroJay Vosburgh
Permit bonding to function rationally if max_bonds is set to zero. This will load the module, but create no master devices (which can be created via sysfs). Requires some change to bond_create_sysfs; currently, the netdev sysfs directory is determined from the first bonding device created, but this is no longer possible. Instead, an interface from net/core is created to create and destroy files in net_class. Based on a patch submitted by Phil Oester <kernel@linuxaces.com>. Modified by Jay Vosburgh to fix the sysfs issue mentioned above and to update the documentation. Signed-off-by: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-06-18bonding: Rework / fix multiple gratuitous ARP supportJay Vosburgh
Support for sending multiple gratuitous ARPs during failovers was added by commit: commit 7893b2491a2d5f716540ac5643d78d37a7f6628b Author: Moni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com> Date: Sat May 17 21:10:12 2008 -0700 bonding: Send more than one gratuitous ARP when slave takes over This change modifies that support to remove duplicated code, add support for ARP monitor (the original only supported miimon), clear the grat ARP counter in bond_close (lest a later "ifconfig up" immediately start spewing ARPs), and add documentation for the module parameter. Also updated driver version to 3.3.0. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-05-22bonding: Add "follow" option to fail_over_macJay Vosburgh
Add a "follow" selection for fail_over_mac. This option causes the MAC address to move from slave to slave as the active slave changes. This is in addition to the existing fail_over_mac option that causes the bond's MAC address to change during failover. This new option is useful for devices that cannot tolerate multiple ports using the same MAC address simultaneously, either because it confuses them or incurs a performance penalty (as is the case with some LPAR-aware multiport devices). Because the MAC of the bond itself does not change, the "follow" option is slightly more reliable during failover and doesn't change the MAC of the bond during operation. This patch requires a previous ARP monitor change to properly handle RTNL during failovers. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-01-28[BONDING]: Documentation updateJay Vosburgh
Update the bonding documentation: more discussion on initialization and configuration, changes to discussion of packet reordering in balance-rr, update some out of date information. Based in part on input from Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com> and Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>