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From: David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
To: "Min Hu (Connor)" <humin29@huawei.com>
Cc: "dev@dpdk.org" <dev@dpdk.org>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Question about bonding port promiscuous
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 15:47:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJFAV8zVsixMRyMuCBPgy371MhDwNqmofJ70TFaO-TvDu5+Fsw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <84348740-547e-27b0-0553-747bd1e50789@huawei.com>

On Wed, Oct 27, 2021 at 5:21 AM Min Hu (Connor) <humin29@huawei.com> wrote:
>
> Hi, David,
> In function "bond_ethdev_promiscuous_disable",
> for "ROUND ROBIN","BALANCE","BROADCAST","8023AD" mode, Promiscuous mode
> is propagated to all slaves.
>
> While for "ACTIVE_BACKUP", "TLB", "ALB", promiscuous mode is propagated
> only to primary slave.
>
> Why?

From what I remember of the rework I did some time ago, the code was
already doing it and I did not question it.
I guess it mimicks what the Linux kernel bonding driver does.

>
> The second question, for "ACTIVE_BACKUP", when primary active slave
> fails, a different slave becomes active, does the promiscuous mode state
> of former primary should be set to the new primary?

IOW, setting promisc on the link that becomes primary?
If it is not done, it sounds like a bug.


-- 
David Marchand


  reply	other threads:[~2021-10-27 13:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-27  3:21 Min Hu (Connor)
2021-10-27 13:47 ` David Marchand [this message]
2021-10-28  2:08   ` Min Hu (Connor)
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-10-14  2:13 Min Hu (Connor)
2021-10-19 11:52 ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-10-21 12:58   ` Min Hu (Connor)
2021-10-21 13:39     ` Min Hu (Connor)

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