From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] bonding: fix to rejoin multicast groups immediately Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2010 20:28:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20101005.202853.39191290.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20101005220757.GB19931@redhat.com> <1286324639-22314-2-git-send-email-fleitner@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, fubar@us.ibm.com, andy@greyhouse.net To: fleitner@redhat.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:57378 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758272Ab0JFD2c (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Oct 2010 23:28:32 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1286324639-22314-2-git-send-email-fleitner@redhat.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Flavio Leitner Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2010 21:23:58 -0300 > The IGMP specs states that if the system receives a > membership report, it shouldn't send another for the > next minute. However, if a link failure happens right > after that, the backup slave and the switch connected > to this slave will not know about the multicast and > the traffic will hang for about a minute. > > This patch fixes it to rejoin multicast groups immediately > after a failover restoring the multicast traffic. > > Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner Much better commit message :-) Applied to net-next-2.6