Commit 5b05078f authored by Aahil Awatramani's avatar Aahil Awatramani Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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bonding: Add independent control state machine



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Add support for the independent control state machine per IEEE
802.1AX-2008 5.4.15 in addition to the existing implementation of the
coupled control state machine.

Introduces two new states, AD_MUX_COLLECTING and AD_MUX_DISTRIBUTING in
the LACP MUX state machine for separated handling of an initial
Collecting state before the Collecting and Distributing state. This
enables a port to be in a state where it can receive incoming packets
while not still distributing. This is useful for reducing packet loss when
a port begins distributing before its partner is able to collect.

Added new functions such as bond_set_slave_tx_disabled_flags and
bond_set_slave_rx_enabled_flags to precisely manage the port's collecting
and distributing states. Previously, there was no dedicated method to
disable TX while keeping RX enabled, which this patch addresses.

Note that the regular flow process in the kernel's bonding driver remains
unaffected by this patch. The extension requires explicit opt-in by the
user (in order to ensure no disruptions for existing setups) via netlink
support using the new bonding parameter coupled_control. The default value
for coupled_control is set to 1 so as to preserve existing behaviour.

Signed-off-by: default avatarAahil Awatramani <aahila@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarHangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240202175858.1573852-1-aahila@google.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Stable-dep-of: 0599640a ("bonding: send LACPDUs periodically in passive mode after receiving partner's LACPDU")
Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
parent b0b8376b
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