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* [PATCH net-next-2.6 0/5] bonding: Refactor, fix, and updates
@ 2008-07-03  1:21 Jay Vosburgh
  2008-07-03  1:21 ` [PATCH 1/5] bonding: refactor mii monitor Jay Vosburgh
  2008-08-06 22:49 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 0/5] bonding: Refactor, fix, and updates Jay Vosburgh
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 13+ messages in thread
From: Jay Vosburgh @ 2008-07-03  1:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: netdev; +Cc: Jeff Garzik, David Miller

	Five patches for bonding; these apply to net-next-2.6.

	Patch 1 is a refactor of the MII monitor, similar to the previous
refactor of the ARP active-backup monitor.  It replaces the monolithic
monitor function that uses conditional locking with a two phase (inspect
and commit) approach with strict locking (RTNL) required only for the
commit phase (which is only called when things actually change).  The long
term goal here is to ultimately consolidate all monitors within a generic
framework.

	Patch 2 makes a change to the Infiniband slave removal processing
to avoid a system crash when removing the final slave via sysfs.

	Patches 3 - 5 provide support for allowing slaves to receive
traffic independently from the master, and require some explanation.

	The goal of the last three patches is to permit slaves to receive
incoming traffic independently from the master; there are legitimate
reasons for wanting to do so, e.g., LLDP.  There are two ways to implement
this: a special case within bonding (skb_bond_should_drop) that would
require a hard-coded list of protocols to pass through, or a generic
method, that modifies the packet receive logic within netif_receive_skb.
The latter method is what is presented here.

	Please apply patches 1 - 2, and review and apply or provide
feedback for patches 3 - 5.

	-J

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

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2008-07-03  1:21 [PATCH net-next-2.6 0/5] bonding: Refactor, fix, and updates Jay Vosburgh
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2008-07-03  1:21   ` [PATCH 2/5] bonding: Don't destroy bonding master when removing slave via sysfs Jay Vosburgh
2008-07-03  1:22     ` [PATCH 3/5] net/core: Uninline skb_bond() Jay Vosburgh
2008-07-03  1:22       ` [PATCH 4/5] net/core: Allow certain receives on inactive slave Jay Vosburgh
2008-07-03  1:22         ` [PATCH 5/5] net/core: Allow receive on active slaves Jay Vosburgh
2008-07-04 12:45           ` Jeff Garzik
2008-07-06  4:12             ` David Miller
2008-07-06  4:36               ` Joe Eykholt
2008-07-06  4:38                 ` David Miller
2008-07-20  4:20                   ` Joe Eykholt
2008-08-07  8:00   ` [PATCH 1/5] bonding: refactor mii monitor Jeff Garzik
2008-08-06 22:49 ` [PATCH net-next-2.6 0/5] bonding: Refactor, fix, and updates Jay Vosburgh

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