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* major bonding bug?
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@ 2003-12-30 16:31 ` Jeff Garzik
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From: Jeff Garzik @ 2003-12-30 16:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Hen, Shmulik; +Cc: Noam, Amir, Marom, Noam, netdev, fubar

hmmm...

It looks like a lot of code now depends on global variable "bond_mode".

This looks very wrong...  bonding mode should be per-interface, not
global to the entire driver.  What happens when a user wants
BOND_MODE_ROUNDROBIN on bond0, and BOND_MODE_TLB on bond1?

	Jeff

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* Re: major bonding bug?
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@ 2003-12-30 16:45 ` Amir Noam
  2003-12-31  0:03   ` Jay Vosburgh
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 3+ messages in thread
From: Amir Noam @ 2003-12-30 16:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Jeff Garzik, Hen, Shmulik; +Cc: Marom, Noam, netdev, fubar

On Tuesday 30 December 2003 06:31 pm, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> hmmm...
>
>
> It looks like a lot of code now depends on global variable
> "bond_mode".

Actually, this has always been the case in the bonding module.

> This looks very wrong...  bonding mode should be per-interface, not
> global to the entire driver.  What happens when a user wants
> BOND_MODE_ROUNDROBIN on bond0, and BOND_MODE_TLB on bond1?

We agree that it looks very wrong, and this is in fact one of the 
features we've been working on lately. It is not a trivial fix, 
since, as you've noted, a lot of the code depends on the bond 
settings being global. We plan to start releasing patches to address 
this issue very soon (probably even starting tomorrow).

-- 
Amir

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* Re: major bonding bug?
  2003-12-30 16:45 ` Amir Noam
@ 2003-12-31  0:03   ` Jay Vosburgh
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Jay Vosburgh @ 2003-12-31  0:03 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Amir Noam; +Cc: Jeff Garzik, Hen, Shmulik, Marom, Noam, netdev


>> This looks very wrong...  bonding mode should be per-interface, not
>> global to the entire driver.  What happens when a user wants
>> BOND_MODE_ROUNDROBIN on bond0, and BOND_MODE_TLB on bond1?
>
>We agree that it looks very wrong, and this is in fact one of the 
>features we've been working on lately. It is not a trivial fix, 
>since, as you've noted, a lot of the code depends on the bond 
>settings being global. We plan to start releasing patches to address 
>this issue very soon (probably even starting tomorrow).

	FWIW, the workaround is to load the bonding module multiple
times (once for each desired mode).

	-J

---
	-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@us.ibm.com

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