Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 21 Nov 2013 10:09:14 -0500 | From | Andy Gospodarek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] bonding: L2DA mode |
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On 11/21/2013 09:55 AM, Anton Nayshtut wrote: > L2 Destination Address based (L2DA) mode allows bonding to send packets using > different slaves according to packets L2 Destination Address. > > In L2DA mode, the bonding maintains a default slave and DA/slave map. > > Upon a packet transmission, the bonding examines DA of the packet and tries to > find a corresponding slave within the map. If found, the slave is used for the > packet transmission. Otherwise, the default slave is used. If the default slave > is unable to transmit at this moment, the bonding tries to fall back to an > arbitrary slave that can transmit. > > Both the default slave and the map can be controlled via sysfs or by ioctls. > > Anton Nayshtut (4): > bonding: L2DA mode added > bonding: L2DA mode intergated > bonding: L2DA command IOCTL > bonding: L2DA query IOCTL > > drivers/net/bonding/Makefile | 2 +- > drivers/net/bonding/bond_l2da.c | 425 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ > drivers/net/bonding/bond_l2da.h | 56 +++++ > drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 172 ++++++++++++++- > drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c | 17 +- > drivers/net/bonding/bond_sysfs.c | 223 ++++++++++++++++++- > drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h | 7 + > include/uapi/linux/if_bonding.h | 32 +++ > include/uapi/linux/sockios.h | 4 +- > net/core/dev_ioctl.c | 4 + > net/socket.c | 4 + > 11 files changed, 937 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 drivers/net/bonding/bond_l2da.c > create mode 100644 drivers/net/bonding/bond_l2da.h >
I have not done a full review of this, but I notice right away that there are no patches to Documentation/networking/bonding.txt. You can wait until there are more comments before submitting a v2 of this series, but please make sure it includes a documentation update when submitted.
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