From: Aichun Li liaichun@huawei.com
mainline inclusion from mainline-v5.5-rc5 commit 0307d589c4d6f84349afb7a53717baa2392f6a38 category: bugfix bugzilla: 46933 CVE: NA
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Ability to tweak the interval between peer notifications has been added in 07a4ddec3ce9 ("bonding: add an option to specify a delay between peer notifications") but the documentation was not updated.
Signed-off-by: Vincent Bernat vincent@bernat.ch Signed-off-by: David S. Miller davem@davemloft.net Signed-off-by: Aichun Li liaichun@huawei.com Reviewed-by: Yue Haibing yuehaibing@huawei.com Reviewed-by: wangxiaopeng wangxiaopeng7@huawei.com Signed-off-by: Yang Yingliang yangyingliang@huawei.com --- Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 16 +++++++++++++--- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index d3e5dd26db12..e3abfbd32f71 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -706,9 +706,9 @@ num_unsol_na unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements) to be issued after a failover event. As soon as the link is up on the new slave (possibly immediately) a peer notification is sent on the - bonding device and each VLAN sub-device. This is repeated at - each link monitor interval (arp_interval or miimon, whichever - is active) if the number is greater than 1. + bonding device and each VLAN sub-device. This is repeated at + the rate specified by peer_notif_delay if the number is + greater than 1.
The valid range is 0 - 255; the default value is 1. These options affect only the active-backup mode. These options were added for @@ -727,6 +727,16 @@ packets_per_slave The valid range is 0 - 65535; the default value is 1. This option has effect only in balance-rr mode.
+peer_notif_delay + + Specify the delay, in milliseconds, between each peer + notification (gratuitous ARP and unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor + Advertisement) when they are issued after a failover event. + This delay should be a multiple of the link monitor interval + (arp_interval or miimon, whichever is active). The default + value is 0 which means to match the value of the link monitor + interval. + primary
A string (eth0, eth2, etc) specifying which slave is the