On Fri, Jul 25, 2025 at 11:55:54AM +0300, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:

On 7/24/25 11:16, Hangbin Liu wrote:

quoted

Introduce a new option ad_actor_port_prio, allowing users to set the actor
port priority on a per-port basis in LACPDU.

This priority can be used in future enhancements to influence aggregator
selection via ad_select policy.

Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <redacted>
---
 Documentation/networking/bonding.rst |  9 +++++++
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_3ad.c       |  2 ++
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_netlink.c   | 16 +++++++++++++
 drivers/net/bonding/bond_options.c   | 35 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 include/net/bond_3ad.h               |  1 +
 include/net/bond_options.h           |  1 +
 include/uapi/linux/if_link.h         |  1 +
 7 files changed, 65 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst b/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst
index a4c1291d2561..5e105e7ac8e6 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst
+++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst

@@ -193,6 +193,15 @@ ad_actor_sys_prio
 	This parameter has effect only in 802.3ad mode and is available through
 	SysFs interface.
 
+ad_actor_port_prio
+
+	In an AD system, this specifies the port priority. The allowed range
+	is 1 - 65535. If the value is not specified, it takes 255 as the

Leaving this as a note: it is set to 255 because actor_port_priorty is initialized to 255
                        and port_priority is initialized to actor_port_priority at slave
                        bind time.

Hi Nikolay,

Is this a note for you? Or you want me add it to the doc?

Thanks
Hangbin