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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] net/bond: change link status check to
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Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2017 12:34:25 +0100
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On 6/28/2017 11:15 AM, Declan Doherty wrote:
> In 2 modes (802.3ad and TLB) of the link bonding driver, monitoring of
> link status is used to determine the active slaves to use. These
> functions are currently using the rte_link_link_get which could block
> for up to 9 seconds, depending on the slave device.
> 
> In the 802.3ad periodic callback and in the TLB slave callback the
> link status of slaves are checked using rte_eth_link_get function.
> 
> This patch changes to the no-wait version of the link get function to
> avoid the possible issues which could be introduced if this call was
> to block for an extended period of time.

Fixes: 46fb43683679 ("bond: add mode 4")
Fixes: 7c76a747e68c ("bond: add mode 5")
Cc: stable@dpdk.org

> 
> Signed-off-by: Declan Doherty <declan.doherty@intel.com>

Applied to dpdk-next-net/master, thanks.