Add a new ad_select policy 'port_priority' that uses the per-port
actor priority values (set via ad_actor_port_prio) to determine
aggregator selection.
This allows administrators to influence which ports are preferred
for aggregation by assigning different priority values, providing
more flexible load balancing control in LACP configurations.
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250902064501.360822-3-liuhangbin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Introduce a new netlink attribute 'actor_port_prio' to allow setting
the LACP actor port priority on a per-slave basis. This extends the
existing bonding infrastructure to support more granular control over
LACP negotiations.
The priority value is embedded in LACPDU packets and will be used by
subsequent patches to influence aggregator selection policies.
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20250902064501.360822-2-liuhangbin@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Remove the implementation of use_carrier, the link monitoring
method that utilizes ethtool or ioctl to determine the link state of an
interface in a bond. Bonding will always behaves as if use_carrier=1,
which relies on netif_carrier_ok() to determine the link state of
interfaces.
To avoid acquiring RTNL many times per second, bonding inspects
link state under RCU, but not under RTNL. However, ethtool
implementations in drivers may sleep, and therefore this strategy is
unsuitable for use with calls into driver ethtool functions.
The use_carrier option was introduced in 2003, to provide
backwards compatibility for network device drivers that did not support
the then-new netif_carrier_ok/on/off system. Device drivers are now
expected to support netif_carrier_*, and the use_carrier backwards
compatibility logic is no longer necessary.
The option itself remains, but when queried always returns 1,
and may only be set to 1.
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/000000000000eb54bf061cfd666a@google.com
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240718122017.d2e33aaac43a.I10ab9c9ded97163aef4e4de10985cd8f7de60d28@changeid
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>
Reported-by: syzbot+b8c48ea38ca27d150063@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Acked-by: Stanislav Fomichev <sdf@fomichev.me>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/2029487.1756512517@famine
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Stacking technology is a type of technology used to expand ports on
Ethernet switches. It is widely used as a common access method in
large-scale Internet data center architectures. Years of practice
have proved that stacking technology has advantages and disadvantages
in high-reliability network architecture scenarios. For instance,
in stacking networking arch, conventional switch system upgrades
require multiple stacked devices to restart at the same time.
Therefore, it is inevitable that the business will be interrupted
for a while. It is for this reason that "no-stacking" in data centers
has become a trend. Additionally, when the stacking link connecting
the switches fails or is abnormal, the stack will split. Although it is
not common, it still happens in actual operation. The problem is that
after the split, it is equivalent to two switches with the same
configuration appearing in the network, causing network configuration
conflicts and ultimately interrupting the services carried by the
stacking system.
To improve network stability, "non-stacking" solutions have been
increasingly adopted, particularly by public cloud providers and
tech companies like Alibaba, Tencent, and Didi. "non-stacking" is
a method of mimicing switch stacking that convinces a LACP peer,
bonding in this case, connected to a set of "non-stacked" switches
that all of its ports are connected to a single switch
(i.e., LACP aggregator), as if those switches were stacked. This
enables the LACP peer's ports to aggregate together, and requires
(a) special switch configuration, described in the linked article,
and (b) modifications to the bonding 802.3ad (LACP) mode to send
all ARP/ND packets across all ports of the active aggregator.
Note that, with multiple aggregators, the current broadcast mode
logic will send only packets to the selected aggregator(s).
+-----------+ +-----------+
| switch1 | | switch2 |
+-----------+ +-----------+
^ ^
| |
+-----------------+
| bond4 lacp |
+-----------------+
| |
| NIC1 | NIC2
+-----------------+
| server |
+-----------------+
- https://www.ruijie.com/fr-fr/support/tech-gallery/de-stack-data-center-network-architecture/
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <jv@jvosburgh.net>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Cc: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Cc: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Cc: Andrew Lunn <andrew+netdev@lunn.ch>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Signed-off-by: Tonghao Zhang <tonghao@bamaicloud.com>
Signed-off-by: Zengbing Tu <tuzengbing@didiglobal.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/84d0a044514157bb856a10b6d03a1028c4883561.1751031306.git.tonghao@bamaicloud.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Add support for the independent control state machine per IEEE
802.1AX-2008 5.4.15 in addition to the existing implementation of the
coupled control state machine.
Introduces two new states, AD_MUX_COLLECTING and AD_MUX_DISTRIBUTING in
the LACP MUX state machine for separated handling of an initial
Collecting state before the Collecting and Distributing state. This
enables a port to be in a state where it can receive incoming packets
while not still distributing. This is useful for reducing packet loss when
a port begins distributing before its partner is able to collect.
Added new functions such as bond_set_slave_tx_disabled_flags and
bond_set_slave_rx_enabled_flags to precisely manage the port's collecting
and distributing states. Previously, there was no dedicated method to
disable TX while keeping RX enabled, which this patch addresses.
Note that the regular flow process in the kernel's bonding driver remains
unaffected by this patch. The extension requires explicit opt-in by the
user (in order to ensure no disruptions for existing setups) via netlink
support using the new bonding parameter coupled_control. The default value
for coupled_control is set to 1 so as to preserve existing behaviour.
Signed-off-by: Aahil Awatramani <aahila@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202175858.1573852-1-aahila@google.com
Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Bonding only supports setting peer_notif_delay with miimon set.
Fixes: 0307d589c4 ("bonding: add documentation for peer_notif_delay")
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Correct xmit hash steps for layer3+4 as introduced by commit
49aefd1317 ("bonding: do not discard lowest hash bit for non layer3+4
hashing").
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
With commit c1f897ce18 ("bonding: set default miimon value for non-arp
modes if not set") the miimon default was changed from zero to 100 if
arp_interval is also zero. Document this fact in bonding.rst.
Fixes: c1f897ce18 ("bonding: set default miimon value for non-arp modes if not set")
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
ARP monitoring no longer depends on dev->last_rx or dev_trans_start(),
so delete this information.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Add per port priority support for bonding active slave re-selection during
failover. A higher number means higher priority in selection. The primary
slave still has the highest priority. This option also follows the
primary_reselect rules.
This option could only be configured via netlink.
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When using layer2 or layer2+3 hash, only the 5th byte of the MAC
addresses is used.
Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch add a new bonding option ns_ip6_target, which correspond
to the arp_ip_target. With this we set IPv6 targets and send IPv6 NS
request to determine the health of the link.
For other related options like the validation, we still use
arp_validate, and will change to ns_validate later.
Note: the sysfs configuration support was removed based on
https://lore.kernel.org/netdev/8863.1645071997@famine
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
When 802.3ad bond mode is configured the ad_actor_system option is set to
"00:00:00:00:00:00". But when trying to set the all-zeroes MAC as actors'
system address it was failing with EINVAL.
An all-zeroes ethernet address is valid, only multicast addresses are not
valid values.
Fixes: 171a42c38c ("bonding: add netlink support for sys prio, actor sys mac, and port key")
Signed-off-by: Fernando Fernandez Mancera <ffmancera@riseup.net>
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211221111345.2462-1-ffmancera@riseup.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Currently, we use hard code number to verify if we are in the
arp_interval timeslice. But some user may want to reduce/extend
the verify timeslice. With the similar team option 'missed_max'
the uers could change that number based on their own environment.
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Add an option lacp_active, which is similar with team's runner.active.
This option specifies whether to send LACPDU frames periodically. If set
on, the LACPDU frames are sent along with the configured lacp_rate
setting. If set off, the LACPDU frames acts as "speak when spoken to".
Note, the LACPDU state frames still will be sent when init or unbind port.
v2: remove module parameter
Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This comes from an end-user request, where they're running multiple VMs on
hosts with bonded interfaces connected to some interest switch topologies,
where 802.3ad isn't an option. They're currently running a proprietary
solution that effectively achieves load-balancing of VMs and bandwidth
utilization improvements with a similar form of transmission algorithm.
Basically, each VM has it's own vlan, so it always sends its traffic out
the same interface, unless that interface fails. Traffic gets split
between the interfaces, maintaining a consistent path, with failover still
available if an interface goes down.
Unlike bond_eth_hash(), this hash function is using the full source MAC
address instead of just the last byte, as there are so few components to
the hash, and in the no-vlan case, we would be returning just the last
byte of the source MAC as the hash value. It's entirely possible to have
two NICs in a bond with the same last byte of their MAC, but not the same
MAC, so this adjustment should guarantee distinct hashes in all cases.
This has been rudimetarily tested to provide similar results to the
proprietary solution it is aiming to replace. A patch for iproute2 is also
posted, to properly support the new mode there as well.
Cc: Jay Vosburgh <j.vosburgh@gmail.com>
Cc: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Cc: Thomas Davis <tadavis@lbl.gov>
Signed-off-by: Jarod Wilson <jarod@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210119010927.1191922-1-jarod@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
- add SPDX header;
- adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- use :field: markup;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
- add SPDX header;
- adjust titles and chapters, adding proper markups;
- comment out text-only TOC from html/pdf output;
- mark code blocks and literals as such;
- mark tables as such;
- add notes markups;
- adjust identation, whitespaces and blank lines;
- add to networking/index.rst.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+huawei@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
