Hi Richard,
Do you have any comments?
Regards
Hangbin
2017-06-06 18:22 GMT+08:00 Hangbin Liu <liuhang...@gmail.com>:
> Hi Richard,
>
> Now more and more customers are asking for linuxptp bond/team fail over
> support.
> I have a draft plan to implement this feature. Would you like to help review
> it
> to see if it's OK or not?
>
> Here are the brief descriptions.
>
> 1. add slave info in struct interface, something like
> struct interface {
> STAILQ_ENTRY(interface) list;
> char name[MAX_IFNAME_SIZE + 1];
> char slave[MAX_IFNAME_SIZE + 1];
> int index;
> int slave_index;
> int linkup;
> int slave_changed;
> struct sk_ts_info ts_info;
> };
> 2. get current interface's active slave via netlink message when
> config_create_interface()
> 3. set clock's PHC index to active slave's PHC index when clock_create()
> 4. when bond/team fail over, get new active slave index
> 5. update clock phc info via clock_switch_phc(), update port status
> via port_dispatch()
> 6. Use automatic mode in phc2sys to automatically sync correct PHC.
>
> Limits and unresolved issues:
> 1. Only support bond/team active-backup
> 2. Only works with phc2sys automatic mode. But how about manual
> config? -s bond0?
> 3. What about vlan?
> 4. What if new active slave do not support required timestamp flags.
> Just report fail?
>
> Thanks
> Hangbin
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