[ofa-general] Re: [PATCH V3 0/7] net/bonding: ADD IPoIB support for the bonding driver
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Jul 30 14:20:22 PDT 2007
> 1. When bonding enslaves an IPoIB device the bonding neighbor holds a
> reference to a cleanup function in the IPoIB drives. This makes it unsafe to
> unload the IPoIB module if there are bonding neighbors in the air. So, to
> avoid this race one must unload bonding before unloading IPoIB.
I think we really want to resolve this somehow. Getting an oops by
doing "modprobe -r ipoib" isn't that friendly.
Also, what happened to the problem of having an address handle
belonging to the wrong device on bond failover? Did you figure out a
way to fix that one?
- R.
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