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* [ofa-general] [PATCH 00/11] IPoIB support for bonding
@ 2007-09-14 23:40 Jay Vosburgh
  2007-09-14 23:40 ` [PATCH 01/11] IB/ipoib: Export call to call_netdevice_notifiers and add new private flag Jay Vosburgh
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 22+ messages in thread
From: Jay Vosburgh @ 2007-09-14 23:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev, rdreier, monis; +Cc: Jay Vosburgh, general, jgarzik, davem

	Following is patch set to provide IPoIB support for bonding in
active-backup mode.  Patches 1 - 10 were originally posted by Moni Shoua
<monis@voltaire.com>.  The changes look reasonable to me, but others (for
IB and net/core changes) probably need to ack.

	Patch 11 modifies the IB "don't copy MAC to all slaves" code in
bonding to also be optional for ethernet devices; this is occasionally
useful.

Original preface for patches 1 - 10 from Moni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com>:

This patch series is the fourth version (see below link to V3) of the 
suggested changes to the bonding driver so it would be able to support 
non ARPHRD_ETHER netdevices for its High-Availability (active-backup) mode. 

The motivation is to enable the bonding driver on its HA mode to work with
the IP over Infiniband (IPoIB) driver. With these patches I was able to
enslave IPoIB netdevices and run TCP, UDP, IP (UDP) Multicast and ICMP
traffic with fail-over and fail-back working fine. The working environment
was the net-2.6 git.

More over, as IPoIB is also the IB ARP provider for the RDMA CM driver which 
is used by native IB ULPs whose addressing scheme is based on IP (e.g. iSER, 
SDP, Lustre, NFSoRDMA, RDS), bonding support for IPoIB devices **enables** HA 
for these ULPs. This holds as when the ULP is informed by the IB HW on the 
failure of the current IB connection, it just need to reconnect, where the 
bonding device will now issue the IB ARP over the active IPoIB slave. 

This series also includes patches to the IPoIB driver that fix some fix 
some neighboring related issues. 

Major changes from the previous version:

1) Addressing the issue of safety when unloading the IPoIB module before
the bonding module
2) style changes


Links to earlier discussion: 

1. A discussion in netdev about bonding support for IPoIB.
http://lists.openwall.net/netdev/2006/11/30/46

2. A discussion in openfabrics regarding changes in the IPoIB that 
enable using it as a slave for bonding.
http://lists.openfabrics.org/pipermail/general/2007-July/038914.html

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2007-09-14 23:40 [ofa-general] [PATCH 00/11] IPoIB support for bonding Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40 ` [PATCH 01/11] IB/ipoib: Export call to call_netdevice_notifiers and add new private flag Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40   ` [ofa-general] [PATCH 02/11] IB/ipoib: Notify the world before doing unregister Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40     ` [PATCH 03/11] IB/ipoib: Bound the net device to the ipoib_neigh structue Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40       ` [PATCH 04/11] IB/ipoib: Verify address handle validity on send Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40         ` [PATCH 05/11] net/bonding: Enable bonding to enslave non ARPHRD_ETHER Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40           ` [PATCH 06/11] net/bonding: Enable bonding to enslave netdevices not supporting set_mac_address() Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40             ` [PATCH 07/11] net/bonding: Enable IP multicast for bonding IPoIB devices Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40               ` [PATCH 08/11] net/bonding: Handle wrong assumptions that slave is always an Ethernet device Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40                 ` [PATCH 9/11] net/bonding: Delay sending of gratuitous ARP to avoid failure Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40                   ` [PATCH 10/11] net/bonding: Destroy bonding master when last slave is gone Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-14 23:40                     ` [PATCH 11/11] bonding: Optionally allow ethernet slaves to keep own MAC Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-17 22:20         ` [PATCH 04/11] IB/ipoib: Verify address handle validity on send Roland Dreier
2007-09-17 22:23       ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 03/11] IB/ipoib: Bound the net device to the ipoib_neigh structue Roland Dreier
2007-09-17 22:22     ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 02/11] IB/ipoib: Notify the world before doing unregister Roland Dreier
2007-09-17 22:25     ` Roland Dreier
2007-09-17 23:23       ` Jay Vosburgh
2007-09-17 23:33         ` Roland Dreier
2007-09-18 17:42           ` [ofa-general] " Roland Dreier
2007-09-19 16:41             ` Moni Shoua
2007-09-19 16:44               ` Roland Dreier
2007-09-17 22:17   ` [ofa-general] Re: [PATCH 01/11] IB/ipoib: Export call to call_netdevice_notifiers and add new private flag Roland Dreier

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