2007-05-09 18:47:27

by Vincent ETIENNE

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

Le Thursday 26 April 2007 22:44:59 Jay Vosburgh, vous avez écrit :
> Chris Snook <[email protected]> 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.
> >

> This problem looks to be one of the known locking issues with
> bonding.
>
> Andy Gospodarek <[email protected]> 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


Any news and/or patch concerning this problem ?. Not intended to stress you
but time goes on... Do you think a solution could be found in a relatively
short timeframe (and i will delay a bit final installation) or is it better
to go without bonding and do an upgrade later ?.

Vincent

>
> ---
> -Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, [email protected]