[PATCH 0/4] bond_alb: support VMs behind bridges better

[Jarod Wilson]

I've been further educated on a use case, where a bridge sits on top of
a bond, with multiple vnetX interfaces attached to virtual machines,
also acting as ports of the bridge. Each leg of the bond goes to a
different switch, but there is NO mlag/vpc in play, the bonding driver
has to handle traffic that loops back appropriately to avoid breaking
transmission. Rather than adding some sort of mac filtering to
balance-xor mode, we switched to using balance-alb, which already does
some of this, and with the tweaks provided in this series, empirically
seems to behave as desired in actual operation.

Jarod Wilson (4):
  bonding: add pure source-mac-based tx hashing option
  bond_alb: don't rewrite bridged non-local MACs
  bond_alb: don't tx balance multicast traffic either
  bond_alb: put all slaves into promisc

 Documentation/networking/bonding.rst | 13 ++++++++++++
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c       | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++++--
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c      | 31 ++++++++++++++++++----------
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c   |  1 +
 include/linux/netdevice.h            |  1 +
 include/uapi/linux/if_bonding.h      |  1 +
 6 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

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