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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jay.vosburgh@canonical.com
Cc: dbanerje@akamai.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, vfalico@gmail.com,
	andy@greyhouse.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] bonding: allow carrier and link status to determine link state
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 12:28:47 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180516.122847.2004339616613745427.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <26172.1526487068@nyx>

From: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 18:11:08 +0200

> Debabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com> wrote:
> 
>>In a mixed environment it may be difficult to tell if your hardware
>>support carrier, if it does not it can always report true. With a new
>>use_carrier option of 2, we can check both carrier and link status
>>sequentially, instead of one or the other
> 
> 	Your reply in the prior discussion suggests to me that there is
> a bug somewhere else (perhaps in bonding, perhaps in the network
> driver), and this is just papering over it.  As I said, I don't believe
> that an additional hack to bonding is the appropriate way to resolve
> this.

Sorry this crossed with my review and application of this series, my bad.

Debabrata please give a specific example of a case where the new "both"
mode actually is needed.

Thank you.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-05-16 16:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-05-14 18:48 [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] bonding: performance and reliability Debabrata Banerjee
2018-05-14 18:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 1/4] bonding: don't queue up extraneous rlb updates Debabrata Banerjee
2018-05-14 18:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 2/4] bonding: use common mac addr checks Debabrata Banerjee
2018-05-14 18:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 3/4] bonding: allow use of tx hashing in balance-alb Debabrata Banerjee
2018-05-14 18:48 ` [PATCH net-next v2 4/4] bonding: allow carrier and link status to determine link state Debabrata Banerjee
2018-05-16 16:11   ` Jay Vosburgh
2018-05-16 16:28     ` David Miller [this message]
2018-05-16 16:54       ` Banerjee, Debabrata
2018-05-16 17:10         ` David Miller
2018-05-16 17:14           ` Banerjee, Debabrata
2018-05-16 17:20             ` David Miller
2018-05-16 16:16 ` [PATCH net-next v2 0/4] bonding: performance and reliability David Miller

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