linux-toradex.git/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt, branch v3.0.63

bonding: documentation and code cleanup for resend_igmp

2011-05-25T21:55:33+00:00

Improves the documentation about how IGMP resend parameter
works, fix two missing checks and coding style issues.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner 
Acked-by: Rick Jones 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

ipv4, ipv6, bonding: Restore control over number of peer notifications

2011-04-29T19:44:11+00:00

For backward compatibility, we should retain the module parameters and
sysfs attributes to control the number of peer notifications
(gratuitous ARPs and unsolicited NAs) sent after bonding failover.
Also, it is possible for failover to take place even though the new
active slave does not have link up, and in that case the peer
notification should be deferred until it does.

Change ipv4 and ipv6 so they do not automatically send peer
notifications on bonding failover.

Change the bonding driver to send separate NETDEV_NOTIFY_PEERS
notifications when the link is up, as many times as requested.  Since
it does not directly control which protocols send notifications, make
num_grat_arp and num_unsol_na aliases for a single parameter.  Bump
the bonding version number and update its documentation.

Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings 
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh 
Acked-by: Brian Haley 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Fix common misspellings

2011-03-31T14:26:23+00:00

Fixes generated by 'codespell' and manually reviewed.

Signed-off-by: Lucas De Marchi

bonding: documentation update: mailing lists.

2011-03-14T22:37:05+00:00

In commit a6c36ee677607b02d8ecc88e8a12785418b88107 ("bonding: change list
contact to netdev@vger.kernel.org"), the mailing list for bonding
developpement was changed from bonding-devel to netdev.

Update the bonding documentation to reflect this change:

- bonding-devel is used for usage discussions (despite the name).
- netdev is used for developpement discussions.

Also remove the reference to the sourceforge bonding page, which is
deprecated.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bonding: update documentation - alternate configuration.

2011-01-25T21:50:56+00:00

The bonding documentation used to provide configuration
details and examples for initscripts and sysconfig only.

This patch describe the third possible configuration:
/etc/network/interfaces.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas de Pesloüan 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bonding: add retransmit membership reports tunable

2010-10-06T03:26:58+00:00

Allow sysadmins to configure the number of multicast
membership report sent on a link failure event.

Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial

2010-08-04T22:31:02+00:00

* 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (48 commits)
  Documentation: update broken web addresses.
  fix comment typo "choosed" -> "chosen"
  hostap:hostap_hw.c Fix typo in comment
  Fix spelling contorller -> controller in comments
  Kconfig.debug: FAIL_IO_TIMEOUT: typo Faul -> Fault
  fs/Kconfig: Fix typo Userpace -> Userspace
  Removing dead MACH_U300_BS26
  drivers/infiniband: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  fs/ocfs2: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
  libfc: use ARRAY_SIZE
  scsi: bfa: use ARRAY_SIZE
  drm: i915: use ARRAY_SIZE
  drm: drm_edid: use ARRAY_SIZE
  synclink: use ARRAY_SIZE
  block: cciss: use ARRAY_SIZE
  comment typo fixes: charater => character
  fix comment typos concerning "challenge"
  arm: plat-spear: fix typo in kerneldoc
  reiserfs: typo comment fix
  update email address
  ...

Documentation: update broken web addresses.

2010-08-04T13:21:40+00:00

Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch
updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/*
Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult,
the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.
Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching
on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address
to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users.

Signed-off-by: Justin P. Mattock 
Signed-off-by: Thomas Weber 
Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger 
Cc: Paulo Marques 
Cc: Randy Dunlap 
Cc: Michael Neuling 
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

bonding: allow user-controlled output slave selection

2010-06-05T09:23:17+00:00

v2: changed bonding module version, modified to apply on top of changes
from previous patch in series, and updated documentation to elaborate on
multiqueue awareness that now exists in bonding driver.

This patch give the user the ability to control the output slave for
round-robin and active-backup bonding.  Similar functionality was
discussed in the past, but Jay Vosburgh indicated he would rather see a
feature like this added to existing modes rather than creating a
completely new mode.  Jay's thoughts as well as Neil's input surrounding
some of the issues with the first implementation pushed us toward a
design that relied on the queue_mapping rather than skb marks.
Round-robin and active-backup modes were chosen as the first users of
this slave selection as they seemed like the most logical choices when
considering a multi-switch environment.

Round-robin mode works without any modification, but active-backup does
require inclusion of the first patch in this series and setting
the 'all_slaves_active' flag.  This will allow reception of unicast traffic on
any of the backup interfaces.

This was tested with IPv4-based filters as well as VLAN-based filters
with good results.

More information as well as a configuration example is available in the
patch to Documentation/networking/bonding.txt.

Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek 
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

bonding: introduce primary_reselect option

2009-10-07T08:07:39+00:00

In some cases there is not desirable to switch back to primary interface when
it's link recovers and rather stay with currently active one. We need to avoid
packetloss as much as we can in some cases. This is solved by introducing
primary_reselect option. Note that enslaved primary slave is set as current
active no matter what.

Patch modified by Jay Vosburgh as follows: fixed bug in action
after change of option setting via sysfs, revised the documentation
update, and bumped the bonding version number.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko 
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh 
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller