From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: fubar@us.ibm.com
Cc: andy@greyhouse.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] bonding: allow previous slave to be used when re-balancing traffic on tlb/alb interfaces
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:43:33 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091005.034333.04801045.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8075.1254532437@death.nxdomain.ibm.com>
From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:13:57 -0700
> Andy, I've been doing some further testing with this patch, and
> I'm seeing some panics that I believe are related to this patch. It
> appears that the last_slave isn't cleared (or isn't cleared soon enough)
> when a slave is released, and concurrent transmit activity is getting
> into alb_get_best_slave() and finding a last_slave pointer that is stale
> (points to no slave currently on the slave list).
I'm holding off on these 3 bonding patches until this is resolved.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-05 10:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-09-30 0:15 [PATCH net-next-2.6 0/3] bonding: TLB / ALB changes Jay Vosburgh
2009-09-30 0:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] bonding: allow previous slave to be used when re-balancing traffic on tlb/alb interfaces Jay Vosburgh
2009-09-30 0:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] bonding: make sure tx and rx hash tables stay in sync when using alb mode Jay Vosburgh
2009-09-30 0:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] bonding: send ARP requests on interfaces other than the primary for tlb/alb Jay Vosburgh
2009-09-30 5:20 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-30 5:40 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-09-30 5:49 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-09-30 7:27 ` David Miller
2009-09-30 7:49 ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-03 1:13 ` [PATCH 1/3] bonding: allow previous slave to be used when re-balancing traffic on tlb/alb interfaces Jay Vosburgh
2009-10-05 10:43 ` David Miller [this message]
2009-10-06 16:27 ` Andy Gospodarek
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