Hi all,
I have observed the following on CentOS 6 using the
2.6.32-573.8.1.el6.x86_64 kernel as well as Ubuntu 15.10 with
4.2.0-25-generic.. I have not yet tried with a vanilla kernel but with
the large time/distro gap it didn't seem likely to be caused by distro
changes.
We have a networking scenario that looks a bit like this:
+---------+ +---------+ +---------+
| | | | | |
| bond0.5 | | bond0.6 | | bond0.7 | VLAN interfaces
| | | | | |
+---+-----+ +---+-----+ +---+-----+
+------+ | +-------+
| | |
+-+----+---+--+
| | type=active-backup
| bond0 | mac failover=active
| |
+-+---------+-+
| |
| |
+---------+-+ +-+---------+
| | | |
| eth0 | | eth1 |bond slaves
| | | |
+-----------+ +-----------+
Our actual scenario is where eth0 and eth1 are SR-IOV VFs passed to kvm
guest via PCI passthru. However, I have been able to demonstrate the
same behavior using the veth driver so I'm going to use that to
illustrate my confusion.
_1) Load bomding module with opt__ions mentioned in the above diagram:_
# modprobe bonding mode=1 miimon=100 fail_over_mac=active
_2) Verify we got the mode we __wanted_
# cat /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/mode
active-backup 1
# cat /sys/class/net/bond0/bonding/fail_over_mac
active 1
_3) Create some veth interfaces just so we have something to bond and
then bond them_
# ip link add name veth0 type veth peer name veth0.peer
# ip link add name veth1 type veth peer name veth1.peer
# ifconfig veth0 up
# ifconfig veth0.peer up
# ifconfig veth1 up
# ifconfig veth1.peer up
# ifconfig bond0 up
# ifenslave bond0 veth0 veth1
Note, MAC is taken from veth0:
# ip link show veth0
5: veth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast master bond0 state UP qlen 1000
link/ether *ca:d2:fb:b9:f9:b8* brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# ip link show veth1
7: veth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast master bond0 state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 16:a3:36:0b:c1:ec brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# ip link show bond0
3: bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
noqueue state UP
link/ether *ca:d2:fb:b9:f9:b8* brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
_4) Create a cou__ple VLAN interfaces_
# ip link add link bond0 name bond0.5 type vlan id 5
# ip link add link bond0 name bond0.6 type vlan id 6
# ip link add link bond0 name bond0.7 type vlan id 7
# ifconfig bond0.5 up
# ifconfig bond0.6 up
# ifconfig bond0.7 up
Note that these all have the sam MACs as bond0:
# ip link show bond0.5
8: bond0.5@bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
noqueue state UP
link/ether ca:d2:fb:b9:f9:b8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# ip link show bond0.6
9: bond0.6@bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
noqueue state UP
link/ether ca:d2:fb:b9:f9:b8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# ip link show bond0.7
10: bond0.7@bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
noqueue state UP
link/ether ca:d2:fb:b9:f9:b8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# ip link show bond0
3: bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
noqueue state UP
link/ether ca:d2:fb:b9:f9:b8 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
_5) __Take down veth0 to cause a failover to veth1_
# ifconfig veth0 down
Now note that bond0 takes the address of veth1 as expected:
# ip link show veth1
7: veth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast master bond0 state UP qlen 1000
link/ether 16:a3:36:0b:c1:ec brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# ip link show bond0
3: bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
noqueue state UP
link/ether 16:a3:36:0b:c1:ec brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
BUT... not the VLAN interfaces, they still have veth0's MAC:
# ip link show veth0
5: veth0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast master
bond0 state DOWN qlen 1000
link/ether *ca:d2:fb:b9:f9:b8* brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# ip link show veth1
7: veth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast master bond0 state UP qlen 1000
link/ether *16:a3:36:0b:c1:ec* brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# ip link show bond0
3: bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
noqueue state UP
link/ether *16:a3:36:0b:c1:ec* brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# ip link show bond0.5
8: bond0.5@bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
noqueue state UP
link/ether *ca:d2:fb:b9:f9:b8* brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# ip link show bond0.6
9: bond0.6@bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
noqueue state UP
link/ether *ca:d2:fb:b9:f9:b8* brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
# ip link show bond0.7
10: bond0.7@bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
noqueue state UP
link/ether *ca:d2:fb:b9:f9:b8* brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
So, herein lies my confusion. I expect that the VLAN interfaces should
also pick up the new MAC address, but they don't. It seems like a bug
to me, but I don't want to be presumptuous so if in fact this is
expected behavior, how do you recommend we approach making it switch
when the bond fails over? Right now, the MAC must be manually set for
each vlan interface.
Right now I am looking at the current bonding code on master in
drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c:
645 /* bond_do_fail_over_mac
646 *
647 * Perform special MAC address swapping for fail_over_mac settings
648 *
649 * Called with RTNL
650 */
651 static void bond_do_fail_over_mac(struct bonding *bond,
652 struct slave *new_active,
653 struct slave *old_active)
654 {
655 u8 tmp_mac[ETH_ALEN];
656 struct sockaddr saddr;
657 int rv;
658
659 switch (bond->params.fail_over_mac) {
660 case BOND_FOM_ACTIVE:
661 if (new_active)
662 bond_set_dev_addr(bond->dev, new_active->dev);
663 break;
I can see it set the mac of the bond to the new active slave MAC, but I
don't see any indication of looping over vlan interfaces or anything, if
that is expected... or would it be expected that the 8021q module
receives an event that should make it change?
I am a kernel newbie, so I am not sure how this is really expected to
work, but am very interested in your suggestions.
Thanks,
John
