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From: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Question]: should we consider arp missed max during bond_ab_arp_probe()?
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 09:25:30 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Zys2Clf0NGeVGl3D@fedora> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZysqM_T8f5qDetmk@nanopsycho.orion>

On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 09:34:59AM +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
> Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 08:39:48AM CET, liuhangbin@gmail.com wrote:
> >Hi Jay,
> >
> >Our QE reported that, when there is no active slave during
> >bond_ab_arp_probe(), the slaves send the arp probe message one by one. This
> >will flap the switch's mac table quickly, sometimes even make the switch stop
> >learning mac address. So should we consider the arp missed max during
> >bond_ab_arp_probe()? i.e. each slave has more chances to send probe messages
> >before switch to another slave. What do you think?
> 
> Out of curiosity, is anyone still using AB mode in real life? And if

Based on our analyse, in year 2024, there are 53.8% users using 802.3ad mode,
41.6% users using active-backup mode. 2.5% users using round-robin mode.

> yes, any idea why exacly?

I think they just want to make sure there is a backup for the link.

Thanks
Hangbin

  reply	other threads:[~2024-11-06  9:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-11-06  7:39 [Question]: should we consider arp missed max during bond_ab_arp_probe()? Hangbin Liu
2024-11-06  8:34 ` Jiri Pirko
2024-11-06  9:25   ` Hangbin Liu [this message]
2024-11-06 14:40     ` Jiri Pirko
2024-11-07  1:21       ` Hangbin Liu
2024-11-07  1:21       ` Jakub Kicinski
2024-11-08  1:32 ` Jay Vosburgh
2024-11-08  2:51   ` Hangbin Liu

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