Re: [PATCH] net: bonding: Fix transmit load balancing in balance-alb mode

From: David Miller
Date: Thu Jul 20 2017 - 18:35:09 EST


From: Kosuke Tatsukawa <tatsu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 2017 05:20:40 +0000

> balance-alb mode used to have transmit dynamic load balancing feature
> enabled by default. However, transmit dynamic load balancing no longer
> works in balance-alb after commit 8b426dc54cf4 ("bonding: remove
> hardcoded value").
>
> Both balance-tlb and balance-alb use the function bond_do_alb_xmit() to
> send packets. This function uses the parameter tlb_dynamic_lb.
> tlb_dynamic_lb used to have the default value of 1 for balance-alb, but
> now the value is set to 0 except in balance-tlb.
>
> Re-enable transmit dyanmic load balancing by initializing tlb_dynamic_lb
> for balance-alb similar to balance-tlb.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kosuke Tatsukawa <tatsu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.

Andy, thanks for the Fixes: tag.