Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 00/10] Decouple receive and transmit enablement in team driver

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2026 09:40:15 -0700

On Wed, 08 Apr 2026 02:52:19 +0000 Marc Harvey wrote:
> Allow independent control over receive and transmit enablement states
> for aggregated ports in the team driver.
> 
> The motivation is that IEE 802.3ad LACP "independent control" can't
> be implemented for the team driver currently. This was added to the
> bonding driver in commit 240fd405528b ("bonding: Add independent
> control state machine").
> 
> This series also has a few patches that add tests to show that the old
> coupled enablement still works and that the new decoupled enablement
> works as intended (4, 5, and 10).
> 
> There are three patches with small fixes as well, with the goal of
> making the final decoupling patch clearer (1, 2, and 3).

It pains me to report on non-debug kernels:

make: Entering directory '/srv/vmksft/testing/wt-9/tools/testing/selftests'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
TAP version 13
1..1
# timeout set to 45
# selftests: drivers/net/team: teamd_activebackup.sh
# Setting up two-link aggregation for runner activebackup
# Teamd version is: teamd 1.32
# Conf files are /tmp/tmp.ZeEAwlX4kB and /tmp/tmp.Q8XVmtXmXY
# This program is not intended to be run as root.
# This program is not intended to be run as root.
# Created team devices
# Teamd PIDs are 30274 and 30278
# PING fd00::2 (fd00::2) 56 data bytes
# 64 bytes from fd00::2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.037 ms
# 
# --- fd00::2 ping statistics ---
# 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
# rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.037/0.037/0.037/0.000 msPacket count for test_team2 was 121
# Waiting for eth0 in ns2-yYZzD5 to stop receiving
# Packet count for eth0 was 0Packet count for eth0 was 0
# Packet count for eth1 was 243
# Waiting for eth1 in ns2-yYZzD5 to stop receiving
# Packet count for eth1 was 0Packet count for eth0 was 365
# Packet count for eth1 was 0
# TEST: teamd active backup runner test                               [ OK ]
# Tearing down two-link aggregation
# Failed to kill daemon: Timer expired
#
not ok 1 selftests: drivers/net/team: teamd_activebackup.sh # TIMEOUT 45 seconds

Retry:

make: Entering directory '/srv/vmksft/testing/wt-9/tools/testing/selftests'
make[1]: Nothing to be done for 'all'.
TAP version 13
1..1
# timeout set to 45
# selftests: drivers/net/team: teamd_activebackup.sh
# Setting up two-link aggregation for runner activebackup
# Teamd version is: teamd 1.32
# Conf files are /tmp/tmp.0pmbsXgdH5 and /tmp/tmp.ehbGB6jJTZ
# This program is not intended to be run as root.
# This program is not intended to be run as root.
# Created team devices
# Teamd PIDs are 1314 and 1318
# PING fd00::2 (fd00::2) 56 data bytes
# 64 bytes from fd00::2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.032 ms
# 
# --- fd00::2 ping statistics ---
# 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 0ms
# rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.032/0.032/0.032/0.000 msPacket count for test_team2 was 121
# Waiting for eth0 in ns2-H0Yrq8 to stop receiving
# Packet count for eth0 was 0Packet count for eth0 was 0
# Packet count for eth1 was 243
# Waiting for eth1 in ns2-H0Yrq8 to stop receiving
# Packet count for eth1 was 0Packet count for eth0 was 366
# Packet count for eth1 was 0
# TEST: teamd active backup runner test                               [ OK ]
# Tearing down two-link aggregation
# Failed to kill daemon: Timer expired
#
not ok 1 selftests: drivers/net/team: teamd_activebackup.sh # TIMEOUT 45 seconds