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bonding: refactor ARP active-backup monitor

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Refactor ARP monitor for active-backup mode.  The motivation for
this is to take care of locking issues in a clear manner (particularly to
correctly handle RTNL vs. the bonding locks).  Currently, the a-b ARP
monitor does not hold RTNL at all, but future changes will require RTNL
during ARP monitor failovers.

	Rather than using conditional locking, this patch instead breaks
up the ARP monitor into three discrete steps: inspection, commit changes,
and probe.  The inspection phase marks slaves that require link state
changes.  The commit phase is only called if inspection detects that
changes are needed, and is called with RTNL.  Lastly, the probe phase
issues the ARP probes that the inspection phase uses to determine link
state.

Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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Jay Vosburgh
2008-05-17 21:10:13 -07:00
committed by Jeff Garzik
parent 7893b2491a
commit b2220cad58
2 changed files with 265 additions and 202 deletions
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drivers/net/bonding/bonding.h
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@@ -158,6 +158,7 @@ struct slave {
unsigned long jiffies;
unsigned long last_arp_rx;
s8 link; /* one of BOND_LINK_XXXX */
s8 new_link;
s8 state; /* one of BOND_STATE_XXXX */
u32 original_flags;
u32 original_mtu;
@@ -169,6 +170,11 @@ struct slave {
struct tlb_slave_info tlb_info;
};
/*
* Link pseudo-state only used internally by monitors
*/
#define BOND_LINK_NOCHANGE -1
/*
* Here are the locking policies for the two bonding locks:
*