bonding: remap muticast addresses without using dev_close() and dev_open()
authorMoni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com>
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:37:40 +0000 (02:37 -0700)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:37:40 +0000 (02:37 -0700)
commit75c78500ddad74b229cd0691496b8549490496a2
tree5249219d68627421e4717c4e8f03f8b4bbad2e92
parent481a8199142c050b72bff8a1956a49fd0a75bbe0
bonding: remap muticast addresses without using dev_close() and dev_open()

This patch fixes commit e36b9d16c6a6d0f59803b3ef04ff3c22c3844c10. The approach
there is to call dev_close()/dev_open() whenever the device type is changed in
order to remap the device IP multicast addresses to HW multicast addresses.
This approach suffers from 2 drawbacks:

*. It assumes tha the device is UP when calling dev_close(), or otherwise
   dev_close() has no affect. It is worth to mention that initscripts (Redhat)
   and sysconfig (Suse) doesn't act the same in this matter.
*. dev_close() has other side affects, like deleting entries from the routing
   table, which might be unnecessary.

The fix here is to directly remap the IP multicast addresses to HW multicast
addresses for a bonding device that changes its type, and nothing else.

Reported-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com>
Signed-off-by: Moni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c
include/linux/igmp.h
include/linux/netdevice.h
include/linux/notifier.h
include/net/addrconf.h
net/core/dev.c
net/ipv4/devinet.c
net/ipv4/igmp.c
net/ipv6/addrconf.c
net/ipv6/mcast.c