From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261301AbVFTPBi (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:01:38 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261306AbVFTPBh (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:01:37 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:64454 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261273AbVFTPBa (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:01:30 -0400 From: Jeff Moyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17078.55866.893715.792418@segfault.boston.redhat.com> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 11:01:14 -0400 To: "John W. Linville" Cc: Matt Mackall , netdev@oss.sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: netpoll and the bonding driver In-Reply-To: <20050620002118.GA16859@tuxdriver.com> References: <17075.10995.498758.773092@segfault.boston.redhat.com> <20050619181436.GX27572@waste.org> <20050620002118.GA16859@tuxdriver.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.17 under 21.4 (patch 15) "Security Through Obscurity" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: jmoyer@redhat.com X-PGP-KeyID: 1F78E1B4 X-PGP-CertKey: F6FE 280D 8293 F72C 65FD 5A58 1FF8 A7CA 1F78 E1B4 X-PCLoadLetter: What the f**k does that mean? Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ==> Regarding Re: netpoll and the bonding driver; "John W. Linville" adds: linville> On Sun, Jun 19, 2005 at 11:14:36AM -0700, Matt Mackall wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 17, 2005 at 03:56:35PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: >> > I'm trying to implement a netpoll hook for the bonding driver. >> >> My first question would be: does this really make sense to do? Why not >> just bind netpoll to one of the underlying devices? linville> Depending on the bonding mode, this would be very unlikely to linville> work. The other side of the link will still be expecting to talk linville> to the bond rather than to an individual link. Right, and for those drivers which register a netpoll_rx routine, they may not get all of the packets destined for them. -Jeff