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| author | Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> | 2016-05-04 16:51:47 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-05-04 17:07:13 -0400 |
| commit | 5c2a9644d05e98b3c06b073351cd363ff91b22e8 (patch) | |
| tree | b4a2eaf172e87490268d6b291830932cdf91270d /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | 5a36b68b670ebdf19eaedd4f859810293a3d1dc1 (diff) | |
bonding: update documentation section after dev->trans_start removal
Drivers that use LLTX need to update trans_start of the netdev_queue.
(Most drivers don't use LLTX; stack does this update if .ndo_start_xmit
returned TX_OK).
Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index 334b49ef02d1..57f52cdce32e 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | |||
| @@ -1880,8 +1880,8 @@ or more peers on the local network. | |||
| 1880 | 1880 | ||
| 1881 | The ARP monitor relies on the device driver itself to verify | 1881 | The ARP monitor relies on the device driver itself to verify |
| 1882 | that traffic is flowing. In particular, the driver must keep up to | 1882 | that traffic is flowing. In particular, the driver must keep up to |
| 1883 | date the last receive time, dev->last_rx, and transmit start time, | 1883 | date the last receive time, dev->last_rx. Drivers that use NETIF_F_LLTX |
| 1884 | dev->trans_start. If these are not updated by the driver, then the | 1884 | flag must also update netdev_queue->trans_start. If they do not, then the |
| 1885 | ARP monitor will immediately fail any slaves using that driver, and | 1885 | ARP monitor will immediately fail any slaves using that driver, and |
| 1886 | those slaves will stay down. If networking monitoring (tcpdump, etc) | 1886 | those slaves will stay down. If networking monitoring (tcpdump, etc) |
| 1887 | shows the ARP requests and replies on the network, then it may be that | 1887 | shows the ARP requests and replies on the network, then it may be that |