It generally helps to handle those values in various places, using it
might make the code more readable and gives room for other improvements.
The IEEE standard talks about them as "parameter values".
Signed-off-by: Holger Eitzenberger <holger@eitzenberger.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch implements alternative aggregator selection policies
for 802.3ad. The existing policy, now termed "stable," selects the active
aggregator by greatest bandwidth, and only reselects a new aggregator
if the active aggregator is entirely disabled (no more ports or all ports
down).
This patch adds two new policies: bandwidth and count, selecting
the active aggregator by total bandwidth (like the stable policy) or by
the number of ports in the aggregator, respectively. These two policies
also differ from the stable policy in that they will reselect the active
aggregator when availability-related changes occur in the bond (e.g.,
link state change).
This permits "gang failover" within 802.3ad, allowing redundant
aggregators along parallel paths to always maintain the "best" aggregator
as the active aggregator (rather than having to wait for the active to
entirely fail).
This patch also updates the driver version to 3.5.0.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
Convert bonding timers to workqueues. This converts the various
monitor functions to run in periodic work queues instead of timers. This
patch introduces the framework and convers the calls, but does not resolve
various locking issues, and does not stand alone.
Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Prior to use struct marker in the linux kernel markers, we need to clean
two drivers which use this structure name.
Change bonding driver types :
- struct marker to struct bond_marker.
- marker_t to bond_marker_t.
- marker_header to bond_marker_header.
- marker_header_t to bond_marker_header_t.
Change qla4xxx struct marker_entry usage :
- Change struct marker_entry for struct qla4_marker_entry.
Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Cc: Chad Tindel <ctindel@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Somayajulu <david.somayajulu@qlogic.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
Cc: Ravi Anand <ravi.anand@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Add support for the bonding master to specify its carrier state
based upon the state of the slaves. For 802.3ad, the bond is up if
there is an active, parterned aggregator. For other modes, the bond is
up if any slaves are up. Updates driver version to 3.0.3.
Based on a patch by jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>.
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Bonding just wants the device before the skb_bond()
decapsulation occurs, so simply pass that original
device into packet_type->func() as an argument.
It remains to be seen whether we can use this same
exact thing to get rid of skb->input_dev as well.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
