From: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
To: 孙守鑫 <sunshouxin@chinatelecom.cn>
Cc: j.vosburgh@gmail.com, vfalico@gmail.com, andy@greyhouse.net,
davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
dsahern@kernel.org, oliver@neukum.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, huyd12@chinatelecom.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] net:bonding:Add support for IPV6 RLB to balance-alb mode
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 12:34:52 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <YjRuXPJzp2fKvMst@nanopsycho> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1f7b15a6-861f-9762-a159-73d16c95eebc@chinatelecom.cn>
Fri, Mar 18, 2022 at 10:49:02AM CET, sunshouxin@chinatelecom.cn wrote:
>
>在 2022/3/17 16:11, Jiri Pirko 写道:
>> Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 07:15:21AM CET, sunshouxin@chinatelecom.cn wrote:
>> > This patch is implementing IPV6 RLB for balance-alb mode.
>> >
>> > Suggested-by: Hu Yadi <huyd12@chinatelecom.cn>
>> > Signed-off-by: Sun Shouxin <sunshouxin@chinatelecom.cn>
>>
>> Could you please reply to my question I asked for v1:
>> Out of curiosity, what is exactly your usecase? I'm asking because
>> I don't see any good reason to use RLB/ALB modes. I have to be missing
>> something.
>>
>> This is adding a lot of code in bonding that needs to be maintained.
>> However, if there is no particular need to add it, why would we?
>>
>> Could you please spell out why exactly do you need this? I'm pretty sure
>> that in the end well find out, that you really don't need this at all.
>>
>> Thanks!
>
>
>This patch is certainly aim fix one real issue in ou lab.
>For historical inheritance, the bond6 with ipv4 is widely used in our lab.
>We started to support ipv6 for all service last year, networking operation
>and maintenance team
>think it does work with ipv6 ALB capacity take it for granted due to bond6's
>specification
>but it doesn't work in the end. as you know, it is impossible to change link
>neworking to LACP
>because of huge cost and effective to online server.
I don't follow. Why exactly can't you use LACP? Every switch supports
it.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-03-18 11:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-03-17 6:15 [PATCH v4] net:bonding:Add support for IPV6 RLB to balance-alb mode Sun Shouxin
2022-03-17 8:11 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-03-18 9:49 ` 孙守鑫
2022-03-18 11:34 ` Jiri Pirko [this message]
2022-03-21 1:17 ` 孙守鑫
2022-03-21 9:52 ` Jiri Pirko
2022-03-17 18:49 ` David Ahern
2022-03-17 20:10 ` Jay Vosburgh
2022-03-18 9:53 ` 孙守鑫
2022-03-18 9:50 ` 孙守鑫
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