From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jay Vosburgh Subject: [PATCH net-next-2.6 0/3] bonding: TLB / ALB changes Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:15:28 -0700 Message-ID: <1254269731-7341-1-git-send-email-fubar@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Miller To: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from e4.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.144]:34770 "EHLO e4.ny.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753116AbZI3APd (ORCPT ); Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:15:33 -0400 Received: from d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (d01relay02.pok.ibm.com [9.56.227.234]) by e4.ny.us.ibm.com (8.14.3/8.13.1) with ESMTP id n8U08LeN012928 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:08:21 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (d01av04.pok.ibm.com [9.56.224.64]) by d01relay02.pok.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id n8U0Fb3X206006 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:15:37 -0400 Received: from d01av04.pok.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d01av04.pok.ibm.com (8.12.11.20060308/8.13.3) with ESMTP id n8U0FaCw023029 for ; Tue, 29 Sep 2009 20:15:37 -0400 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Note that this patchset is against net-next-2.6 with these patches from Jiri Pirko already applied: http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/32684/ http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/34272/ Three patches for bonding: Patch 1 changes the tlb/alb algorithm to try and keep hosts assigned to the same slave during a rebalance. Patch 2 synchronizes the rx and tx hash tables, and unifies their locking. Periodic rlb rebalance no longer occurs, as both hash tables are controlled by the transmit side. Patch 3 arranges for ARP packets to be sent on a slave that is appropriate for the destination, instead of always using the same slave for all ARP traffic. A fourth patch has been discussed on the list (to dump the alb and tlb hash tables); that patch is not being submitted at this time, and may return in a different form at some point in the future. Please apply for net-next-2.6. -J --- -Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@us.ibm.com