From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: longli@linuxonhyperv.com
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>,
Ajay Sharma <sharmaajay@microsoft.com>,
Konstantin Taranov <kotaranov@microsoft.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-hyperv@vger.kernel.org,
Long Li <longli@microsoft.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] hv_netvsc: Set device flags for properly indicating bonding in Hyper-V
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2025 16:20:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250211162026.593b0b93@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1738965337-23085-1-git-send-email-longli@linuxonhyperv.com>
On Fri, 7 Feb 2025 13:55:37 -0800 longli@linuxonhyperv.com wrote:
> On Hyper-V platforms, a slave VF netdev always bonds to Netvsc and remains
> as Netvsc's only active slave as long as the slave device is present. This
> behavior is the same as a bonded device, but it's not user-configurable.
>
> Some kernel APIs (e.g those in "include/linux/netdevice.h") check for
> IFF_MASTER, IFF_SLAVE and IFF_BONDING for determing if those are used in
> a master/slave bonded setup. Netvsc's bonding setup with its slave device
> falls into this category.
Again, this is way too much of a hack. You're trying to make
netif_is_bond_master() return true for your franken-interfaces
with minimal effort.
--
pw-bot: reject
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-02-12 0:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-02-07 21:55 [PATCH net-next v3] hv_netvsc: Set device flags for properly indicating bonding in Hyper-V longli
2025-02-12 0:20 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2025-02-12 0:37 ` Stephen Hemminger
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