From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: nikolay@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, andy@greyhouse.net, fubar@us.ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] bonding: fix arp monitoring with vlan slaves
Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2013 15:32:12 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130802.153212.1340051334413929810.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1375461665-4186-1-git-send-email-nikolay@redhat.com>
From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2013 18:41:05 +0200
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov <Nikolay Aleksandrov nikolay@redhat.com>
>
> When arp monitoring is enabled the bonding relies on slaves'
> dev_trans_start() value to check if the slave link is up or not, but for
> 8021q devices that value is either stale or 0, and can't be used. So use
> the 8021q's underlying device value.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Handling this specially in bonding isn't really ideal.
Please either hide this detail in dev_trans_start(), or (preferrably)
have vlan_dev_hard_start_xmit() set the trans_start timestamp
properly thus making this just work for everything.
Thanks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-02 22:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-02 16:41 [PATCH net] bonding: fix arp monitoring with vlan slaves Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-08-02 22:32 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-08-02 22:40 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-08-02 23:17 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-08-02 23:29 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2013-08-02 23:59 ` Jay Vosburgh
2013-08-03 0:03 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-08-03 0:21 ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
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