On 2018/07/21 1:41, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 20, 2018 at 9:02 AM, Stephen Hemminger
> wrote:
>> Trying to understand this.
>>
>> Is it the case that what you are trying to solve is the way MLAG
>> and bridging interact on the Linux side or more a limitation of how
>> switches operate? Wo
This patch adds a new port attribute - IFLA_BRPORT_BACKUP_PORT, which
allows to set a backup port to be used for known unicast traffic if the
port has gone carrier down. The backup pointer is rcu protected and set
only under RTNL, a counter is maintained so when deleting a port we know
how many oth
Hi,
This set introduces a new bridge port option that allows any port to have
any other port (in the same bridge of course) as its backup and traffic
will be forwarded to the backup port when the primary goes down. This is
mainly used in MLAG and EVPN setups where we have peerlink path which is
a b
This patch adds a new alternative store callback for port sysfs options
which takes a raw value (buf) and can use it directly. It is needed for the
backup port sysfs support since we have to pass the device by its name.
Signed-off-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov
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There are a few checkpatch warnings he
On 22/07/18 09:27, David Miller wrote:
> From: Nikolay Aleksandrov
> Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2018 17:48:25 +0300
>
>> +spin_lock_bh(&p->br->lock);
>> +ret = brport_attr->store_raw(p, (char *)buf);
>> +spin_unlock_bh(&p->br->lock);
>
> Please respect the const here.
