Or Gerlitz wrote:
This patch series is a second version (see below link to V1) of the suggested
changes to the bonding driver such that it would be able to support non
ARPHRD_ETHER
netdevices for its High-Availability (active-backup) mode.
The motivation is to enable the bonding driver on its HA mode to work with the
IP over Infiniband (IPoIB) driver. With these patches I was able to enslave
IPoIB netdevices and run TCP, UDP, IP (UDP) Multicast and ICMP traffic with
fail-over and fail-back working fine. My working env was the net-2.6.20 git.
These patches are not enough for configuration of IPoIB bonding through tools
(eg /sbin/ifenslave and /sbin/ifup) provided by packages such as sysconfig and
initscripts, specifically since these tools sets the bonding device to be UP
before enslaving anything. Once this patchset gets positive/feedback the next
step
would be to look how to enhance the tools/packages so it would be possible to
bond/enslave with the modified code. As suggested by the bonding maintainer,
this
step can potentially involve converting ifenslave to be a script based on the
bonding
sysfs infrastructure rather on the somehow obsoleted
Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c
Jay,
I would like to move forward and push the V2 patch series upstream
through netdev and then start working on the configuration tools etc
changes needed to support bonding IPoIB devices through non direct
bonding sysfs scripts... are you OK with that?
If you agree to the push, who is doing this nowadays, is it Jeff Garzik
or David Miller?
Roland - any other comments/concerns that you might have are very much
appreciated.
Or.
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