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From: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
To: Jay Vosburgh <jay.vosburgh@canonical.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@redhat.com>,
	Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@gmail.com>,
	Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] veth: Add updating of trans_start
Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2022 08:45:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220617084535.6d687ed0@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9088.1655407590@famine>

On Thu, 16 Jun 2022 12:26:30 -0700 Jay Vosburgh wrote:
> 	Since commit 21a75f0915dd ("bonding: Fix ARP monitor validation"),
> the bonding ARP / ND link monitors depend on the trans_start time to
> determine link availability.  NETIF_F_LLTX drivers must update trans_start
> directly, which veth does not do.  This prevents use of the ARP or ND link
> monitors with veth interfaces in a bond.

Why is a SW device required to update its trans_start? trans_start is
for the Tx hang watchdog, AFAIK, not a general use attribute. There's
plenty of NETIF_F_LLTX devices, are they all broken? 

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-06-17 15:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-16 19:26 [PATCH net] veth: Add updating of trans_start Jay Vosburgh
2022-06-17 10:40 ` patchwork-bot+netdevbpf
2022-06-17 15:45 ` Jakub Kicinski [this message]
2022-06-17 16:42   ` Jay Vosburgh
2022-06-17 19:44     ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-06-18  0:27       ` Jay Vosburgh
2022-06-18  0:55         ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-06-21 19:52           ` Jakub Kicinski
2022-06-22  1:42             ` Jay Vosburgh
2022-06-22  4:38               ` Jakub Kicinski

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