Commit 1053f62c authored by Moni Shoua's avatar Moni Shoua Committed by Jeff Garzik

net/bonding: Delay sending of gratuitous ARP to avoid failure

Delay sending a gratuitous_arp when LINK_STATE_LINKWATCH_PENDING bit
in dev->state field is on. This improves the chances for the arp packet to
be transmitted.

Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
parent 3158bf7d
......@@ -1103,8 +1103,14 @@ void bond_change_active_slave(struct bonding *bond, struct slave *new_active)
if (new_active && !bond->do_set_mac_addr)
memcpy(bond->dev->dev_addr, new_active->dev->dev_addr,
new_active->dev->addr_len);
bond_send_gratuitous_arp(bond);
if (bond->curr_active_slave &&
test_bit(__LINK_STATE_LINKWATCH_PENDING,
&bond->curr_active_slave->dev->state)) {
dprintk("delaying gratuitous arp on %s\n",
bond->curr_active_slave->dev->name);
bond->send_grat_arp = 1;
} else
bond_send_gratuitous_arp(bond);
}
}
......@@ -2073,6 +2079,17 @@ void bond_mii_monitor(struct net_device *bond_dev)
* program could monitor the link itself if needed.
*/
if (bond->send_grat_arp) {
if (bond->curr_active_slave && test_bit(__LINK_STATE_LINKWATCH_PENDING,
&bond->curr_active_slave->dev->state))
dprintk("Needs to send gratuitous arp but not yet\n");
else {
dprintk("sending delayed gratuitous arp on on %s\n",
bond->curr_active_slave->dev->name);
bond_send_gratuitous_arp(bond);
bond->send_grat_arp = 0;
}
}
read_lock(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
oldcurrent = bond->curr_active_slave;
read_unlock(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
......@@ -2474,7 +2491,7 @@ static void bond_send_gratuitous_arp(struct bonding *bond)
if (bond->master_ip) {
bond_arp_send(slave->dev, ARPOP_REPLY, bond->master_ip,
bond->master_ip, 0);
bond->master_ip, 0);
}
list_for_each_entry(vlan, &bond->vlan_list, vlan_list) {
......@@ -4280,6 +4297,7 @@ static int bond_init(struct net_device *bond_dev, struct bond_params *params)
bond->current_arp_slave = NULL;
bond->primary_slave = NULL;
bond->dev = bond_dev;
bond->send_grat_arp = 0;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&bond->vlan_list);
/* Initialize the device entry points */
......
......@@ -187,6 +187,7 @@ struct bonding {
struct timer_list arp_timer;
s8 kill_timers;
s8 do_set_mac_addr;
s8 send_grat_arp;
struct net_device_stats stats;
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
struct proc_dir_entry *proc_entry;
......
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