From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EB70C433FE for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 08:11:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S230477AbiCQIMw (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2022 04:12:52 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:40160 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S229760AbiCQIMo (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Mar 2022 04:12:44 -0400 Received: from mail-ed1-x52c.google.com (mail-ed1-x52c.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::52c]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0E937108193 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 01:11:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-ed1-x52c.google.com with SMTP id m12so5536087edc.12 for ; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 01:11:27 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=resnulli-us.20210112.gappssmtp.com; s=20210112; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=jtQWBLaDrBArWqmWot/qK2nwyh+bP+vnDzmbHrJsXek=; b=VxDQoKvXVFOlQ5TLzCU2fxc7EvaiNrogmhzQPCzOhaSPOp7ktvSUZ99ByEQmid/qxC XVNGRkUipWg1lcLOn5nXVFul/geyxG82EIKjflOGsklDVWS2OsTOsnMR+wOACm6lsybU ixx6fJxwlHv3bhsSZopP+LRaHLqI+B6ztmDoVkPfcBNn1dEwWa098gNJWFSDXY3sWsL9 c14DL9RY6yvNiDFCWOMZDSFQGog4nHjO7GnmdMyEDm3AeB5Qr22c0MfmJp0ogtt84ILm nOdYeJRgchvNlaiMOLzf+fUnLWDKEZ4qGBLyhC1qubebSIvkgr20L5mcoVMv5218LMxB MUfA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20210112; h=x-gm-message-state:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references :mime-version:content-disposition:in-reply-to; bh=jtQWBLaDrBArWqmWot/qK2nwyh+bP+vnDzmbHrJsXek=; b=KzayE+lrvMI2iCX+dCCprpwUjtGfjBSn00lCK7aYdExxbQc2b6k5nRzjaIXtBjyKKn dABVevSP67kZPA7iJea/VkXQ4+ks9h6m+HQgfRO/yY4jR79CTUI/RhZ2lhzptmZ8C/XT K+gMv+L8+XDMXdQIcLAGYSKM+H3IbHJRznfv/FxTeqHEniDkAMTkoTZ5lLYp+YhalR/u NPZCY5ejUSQhqaHjQ0Cudcx4Rt2FsS3jjBooqgre79b2RLMgz1RPud/PxANqrdU6mm7q ozJj/WwSu7SbFfK3IeKdd0qp6r27ozZBbEUDBDiZCyq4cMMe+6hJ5xPidfvOpOQmcA8/ R4ew== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM5300UHJ5M/1zojA4mammnAWcAH4jRgPmUadXO+n7IeH+NzbiEp+E vsaL+DAnpZCUPcxh6OxBil9J0A== X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJyB2yYg/gh58dKJRPw4PSASfvzsov2cAcREU9vG4rJaR7aZFopg2DCMD8VY8T43CyWuNoCglQ== X-Received: by 2002:a05:6402:42c6:b0:416:541:4be1 with SMTP id i6-20020a05640242c600b0041605414be1mr3146063edc.238.1647504686456; Thu, 17 Mar 2022 01:11:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost ([86.61.181.4]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id i5-20020a05640242c500b00416701e9466sm2191421edc.26.2022.03.17.01.11.25 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Thu, 17 Mar 2022 01:11:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2022 09:11:25 +0100 From: Jiri Pirko To: Sun Shouxin Cc: j.vosburgh@gmail.com, vfalico@gmail.com, andy@greyhouse.net, davem@davemloft.net, kuba@kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org, dsahern@kernel.org, oliver@neukum.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, huyd12@chinatelecom.cn Subject: Re: [PATCH v4] net:bonding:Add support for IPV6 RLB to balance-alb mode Message-ID: References: <20220317061521.23985-1-sunshouxin@chinatelecom.cn> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20220317061521.23985-1-sunshouxin@chinatelecom.cn> Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Thu, Mar 17, 2022 at 07:15:21AM CET, sunshouxin@chinatelecom.cn wrote: >This patch is implementing IPV6 RLB for balance-alb mode. > >Suggested-by: Hu Yadi >Signed-off-by: Sun Shouxin Could you please reply to my question I asked for v1: Out of curiosity, what is exactly your usecase? I'm asking because I don't see any good reason to use RLB/ALB modes. I have to be missing something. This is adding a lot of code in bonding that needs to be maintained. However, if there is no particular need to add it, why would we? Could you please spell out why exactly do you need this? I'm pretty sure that in the end well find out, that you really don't need this at all. Thanks!