[ewg] [PATCH] ofed-docs: Add ib-bonding documentation

[Moni Shoua]

Hi,
This patch to ipoib_release_notes.txt is not applied yet.
I think it is important, specially for for those who want to know
how to start bonding automatically when OFED starts.

Can you please apply it?

thanks

 -MoniS
Moni Shoua wrote:
> Add a section for ib-bonding.
> Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis at voltaire.com>
> ---
> 
> diff --git a/ipoib_release_notes.txt b/ipoib_release_notes.txt
> index bce03d3..4249f1c 100644
> --- a/ipoib_release_notes.txt
> +++ b/ipoib_release_notes.txt
> @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Table of Contents
>  3. Known Issues
>  4. DHCP Support of IPoIB
>  5. High Availability (HA) Service
> +6. The ib-bonding driver
>  
>  ===============================================================================
>  1. Overview
> @@ -149,3 +150,38 @@ The HA service may also be activated man
>      --with-multicast    support applications that are using multicast
>      -v                  verbose output
>  
> +===============================================================================
> +6. The ib-bonding driver
> +===============================================================================
> +The ib-bonding driver is a High Availability solution for IPoIB interfaces. 
> +It is based on the Linux Ethernet Bonding Driver and was adopted to work with
> +IPoIB.  ib-bonding package contains a bonding driver and a utility called 
> +ib-bond to manage and control the driver operation. 
> +The ib-bonding driver comes with the ib-bonding package (run rpm -qi ib-bonding
> +to get the package information).
> +
> +Using the ib-bonding driver
> +---------------------------
> +The ib-bonding driver can be loaded manually or automatically
> +
> +1. Manual operaion:
> +Use the utility ib-bond to stop/query/stop the driver. To get help about this
> +utility, read the documentaion that comes with the ib-bonding package.
> +
> +2. Automatic operation:
> +Edit file '/etc/infiniband/openib.conf' as follows:
> +		# Enable the bonding driver on startup.
> +		IPOIBBOND_ENABLE=yes
> +		# # Set bond interface names
> +		IPOIB_BONDS=bond0,bond1
> +		# Set specific bond params; address and slaves
> +		bond0_IP=10.10.10.1
> +		bond0_SLAVES=ib0,ib1
> +		bond1_IP=20.10.10.1
> +		bond1_SLAVES=ib2,ib3,ib4
> +
> +Notes:
> +* The ib-bonding driver doesn't load when the HA service is configured to load.
> +* If bondX name is defined but one of bondX_SLAVES or bondX_IP is missing, then that
> +  specific bond will not be created.
> +
> 
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