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Commit 14c9551a authored by Mahesh Bandewar's avatar Mahesh Bandewar Committed by David S. Miller
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bonding: Implement port churn-machine (AD standard 43.4.17).



The Churn Detection machines detect the situation where a port is operable,
but the Actor and Partner have not attached the link to an Aggregator and
brought the link into operation within a bound time period. Under normal
operation of the LACP, agreement between Actor and Partner should be reached
very rapidly. Continued failure to reach agreement can be symptomatic of
device failure.

Actor-churn-detection state-machine
Reviewed-by: default avatarNikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>

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BEGIN=True + PortEnable=False
           |
           v
 +------------------------+   ActorPort.Sync=True  +------------------+
 |   ACTOR_CHURN_MONITOR  | ---------------------> |  NO_ACTOR_CHURN  |
 |========================|                        |==================|
 |    ActorChurn=False    |  ActorPort.Sync=False  | ActorChurn=False |
 | ActorChurn.Timer=Start | <--------------------- |                  |
 +------------------------+                        +------------------+
           |                                                ^
           |                                                |
  ActorChurn.Timer=Expired                                  |
           |                                       ActorPort.Sync=True
           |                                                |
           |                +-----------------+             |
           |                |   ACTOR_CHURN   |             |
           |                |=================|             |
           +--------------> | ActorChurn=True | ------------+
                            |                 |
                            +-----------------+

Similar for the Partner-churn-detection.

Signed-off-by: default avatarMahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent bb54e589
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