Re: [PATCH net-next] selftests: bonding: disable DAD for IPv6 addresses

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:02:10 +0800 Hangbin Liu wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 08, 2026 at 09:23:45AM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> > bond_reset() waits up to 2 seconds for IPv6 connectivity.
> > With default settings DAD itself may take almost 2 seconds,
> > causing flakes on debug builds. It used to flake once or
> > twice a week, recently it started failing once a day.
> > Probably some downstream changes to scheduler, or our machines
> > go busier.
> > 
> > A lot of selftests already use nodad, let's use nodad in bonding, too.
> > I don't see an obvious reason why DAD would be important to the test.  
> 
> In this case, how about add nodad to all IPv6 address setting on bonding
> tests, e.g. bond_options.sh, bond_macvlan_ipvlan.sh.
> 
> After that, we may event remove the sleep time in bond_macvlan_ipvlan.sh.
> In my local testing all the macvlan/ipvlan test passed with nodad set.

Can you do that as a follow up, please?

bond_options.sh is the worst offender for flakiness right now.
I would like to squash these flakes ASAP.