Re: [Bonding-devel] [PROBLEM] Bonding driver in linux-2.6.21-rc6-mm1

[Vincent ETIENNE]

Le Thursday 26 April 2007 22:44:59 Jay Vosburgh, vous avez ÃcritÂ:
> Chris Snook <csnook@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >Vincent ETIENNE wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>  Summary :
> >> 	Got this trace when one network interface come down or up in a 2
> >> 	interfaces bonding.	So far, system seems to survive to this problem
> >> 	and works fine.
> >
> >I'm investigating a similar/possibly identical bug.  Do you experience
> >packet loss or throughput stalls, beyond just the loss of the interface
> >that went down, when this happens?
>
> 	This problem looks to be one of the known locking issues with
> bonding.
>
> 	Andy Gospodarek <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> and I have been working
> offline on the locking issues in bonding over the last several weeks.
> At the moment, we have a generally stable (but ugly with debug fluff and
> other yuckies) patch that seems to resolve at least the majority of the
> various issues.  I'm thinking to clean it up for general posting early
> next week, and address additional problems from there (since it's
> hopefully at least a big step forward).
>
> 	-J
>
> ---
> 	-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, fubar@xxxxxxxxxx
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Will be more than happy to test it and report the result with the new patch.

Thanks for your work,
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