From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 v2] bonding: introduce primary_reselect option Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2009 01:25:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20091007.012540.251740594.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20090918195358.GB32154@psychotron.redhat.com> <21492.1253838848@death.nxdomain.ibm.com> <20090925132803.GB3657@psychotron.redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: fubar@us.ibm.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, nicolas.2p.debian@free.fr To: jpirko@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:36043 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758796AbZJGIZp (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Oct 2009 04:25:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20090925132803.GB3657@psychotron.redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jiri Pirko Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:28:09 +0200 > Subject: [PATCH net-2.6 v3] bonding: introduce primary_reselect option > > In some cases there is not desirable to switch back to primary interface when > it's link recovers and rather stay with currently active one. We need to avoid > packetloss as much as we can in some cases. This is solved by introducing > primary_reselect option. Note that enslaved primary slave is set as current > active no matter what. > > Patch modified by Jay Vosburgh as follows: fixed bug in action > after change of option setting via sysfs, revised the documentation > update, and bumped the bonding version number. > > Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko > Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh Applied, thanks.