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From: "zheng.li" <zheng.x.li@oracle.com>
To: Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@huawei.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, fubar@us.ibm.com, andy@greyhouse.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davem@davemloft.net,
	joe.jin@oracle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bonding: Inactive slaves should keep inactive flag's value to 1 in tlb and alb mode.
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:36:39 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53314017.8040104@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5330FB34.4090005@huawei.com>

于 2014年03月25日 11:42, Ding Tianhong 写道:
> On 2014/3/25 11:00, Zheng Li wrote:
>> In bond mode tlb and alb, inactive slaves should keep inactive flag to
>> 1 to refuse to receive broadcast packets. Now, active slave send broadcast packets
>> (for example ARP requests) which will arrive inactive slaves on same host from switch,
>> but inactive slave's inactive flag is zero that cause bridge receive the broadcast
>> packets to produce a wrong entry in forward table. Typical situation is domu send some
>> ARP request which go out from dom0 bond's active slave, then the ARP broadcast request
>> packets go back to inactive slave from switch, because the inactive slave's inactive
>> flag is zero, kernel will receive the packets and pass them to bridge, that cause dom0's
>> bridge map domu's MAC address to port of bond, bridge should map domu's MAC to port of vif.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zheng Li <zheng.x.li@oracle.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>> index e5628fc..8761df6 100644
>> --- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>> +++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
>> @@ -3062,7 +3062,7 @@ static int bond_open(struct net_device *bond_dev)
>>  				&& (slave != bond->curr_active_slave)) {
>>  				bond_set_slave_inactive_flags(slave,
>>  							      BOND_SLAVE_NOTIFY_NOW);
>> -			} else {
>> +			} else if (!bond_is_lb(bond)) {
>>  				bond_set_slave_active_flags(slave,
>>  							    BOND_SLAVE_NOTIFY_NOW);
>>  			}
>>
> I think you did not fix the problem completely, the state monitor will change the status for the slaves
> and the inactive slave still could receive the broadcast.

Had tested, it can fix the issue, verified by our QA.
Default set slave of bond as inactive when add a slave to bond, when
link UP, just set one slave as current active slave and clear its
inactive flag, the inactive slave's inactive flag will keep the value of 1.


> 
> Regards
> Ding
> 
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-25  8:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-25  3:00 [PATCH] bonding: Inactive slaves should keep inactive flag's value to 1 in tlb and alb mode Zheng Li
2014-03-25  3:42 ` Ding Tianhong
2014-03-25  8:36   ` zheng.li [this message]
2014-03-26  0:53     ` Ding Tianhong
2014-03-27  2:26       ` zheng.li
2014-03-27 17:23 ` Jay Vosburgh
2014-03-28  8:39   ` zheng.li
2014-04-02  7:35 ` Pavel Machek

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