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From: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
To: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, bonding-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Bonding-devel] quick help with bonding?
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 09:24:00 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <22707.1175185440@death> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <460BE5F0.7070606@nortel.com>

Chris Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com> wrote:

>Could someone either point me to the bonding high level design document 
>(couldn't find one at the sourceforge project page) or else give me a 
>quick overview of the code path followed by an incoming packet when 
>bonding is involved?

	There really isn't a high level design document.

	The input path goes from the driver, which (probably) calls
netif_receive_skb.  That function does its processing whatnot, the only
special step for bonding is the processing done by skb_bond() which
assigns the packet to the bonding device.  In the current mainline,
skb_bond() also does some stuff to drop traffic on inactive slaves as
the like.

	After that, the packet follows the regular input path in
netif_skb_receive.

	-J

---
	-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@us.ibm.com

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-29 16:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-29 16:14 quick help with bonding? Chris Friesen
2007-03-29 16:24 ` Jay Vosburgh [this message]
2007-03-29 18:16 ` [Bonding-devel] " Andy Gospodarek
2007-03-29 22:08   ` Chris Friesen
2007-03-29 22:30     ` Jay Vosburgh
2007-03-29 23:01       ` Mark Huth
2007-03-29 23:42       ` Chris Friesen
2007-03-30  0:13         ` Jay Vosburgh
2007-03-30  0:36         ` Andy Gospodarek
2007-03-30  1:19           ` Chris Friesen
2007-03-30  1:26             ` Chris Friesen
2007-03-30  2:48               ` Andy Gospodarek
2007-03-30  2:49               ` Chris Friesen
2007-04-02 22:28 ` Chris Friesen

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