Subject: Re: [PATCH] net:bonding:support balance-alb with openvswitch

From: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2023 14:04:00 +0200

Hi Mat,

+ Jay Vosburgh <[email-masked]>
  Andy Gospodarek <[email-masked]>
  "David S. Miller" <[email-masked]>
  Eric Dumazet <[email-masked]>
  Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
  Paolo Abeni <[email-masked]>
  [email-masked]

  As per the output of
  ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl --git-min-percent 25 this.patch
  which is the preferred method to determine the CC list for
  Networking patches. LKML can, in general, be excluded.

> Commit d5410ac7b0ba ("net:bonding:support balance-alb interface with
> vlan to bridge") introduced a support for balance-alb mode for
> interfaces connected to the linux bridge by fixing missing matching of
> MAC entry in FDB. In our testing we discovered that it still does not
> work when the bond is connected to the OVS bridge as show in diagram
> below:
> 
> eth1(mac:eth1_mac)--bond0(balance-alb,mac:eth0_mac)--eth0(mac:eth0_mac)
>                       |
>                     bond0.150(mac:eth0_mac)
>                               |
>                     ovs_bridge(ip:bridge_ip,mac:eth0_mac)
> 
> This patch fixes it by checking not only if the device is a bridge but
> also if it is an openvswitch.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mateusz Kowalski <[email-masked]>

Hi,

unfortunately this does not seem to apply to net-next.
Perhaps it needs to be rebased.

Also.

1. For Networking patches, please include the target tree, in this case
   net-next, as opposed to net, which is for fixes, in the subject.

	Subject: [PATCH net-next] ...

2. Perhaps 'bonding; ' is a more appropriate prefix.

	Subject: [PATCH net-next] bonding: ...

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