On Wed, 23 Jul 2025 20:18:03 +0000 Haiyang Zhang wrote: > > > Btw, if I understand this correctly. This is for future development so > > > it's not a blocker for this patch? > > > > Not a blocker, I'm just giving an example of the netvsc auto-weirdness > > being a source of tech debt and bugs. Commit d7501e076d859d is another > > recent one off the top of my head. IIUC systemd-networkd is broadly > > deployed now. It'd be great if there was some migration plan for moving > > this sort of VM auto-bonding to user space (with the use of the common > > bonding driver, not each hypervisor rolling its own). > > Actually, we had used the common bonding driver 9 years ago. But it's > replaced by this kernel/netvsc based "transparent" bonding mode. See > the patches listed below. > > The user mode bonding scripts were unstable, and difficult to deliver > & update for various distros. So Stephen developed the new "transparent" > bonding mode, which greatly improves the situation.
I specifically highlighted systemd-networkd as the change in the user space landscape.
