Thread (20 messages) 20 messages, 6 authors, 2007-08-01

Re: [PATCH V3 0/7] net/bonding: ADD IPoIB support for the bonding driver

From: Roland Dreier <hidden>
Date: 2007-07-30 21:20:35

 > 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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