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authorHangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com>2022-06-21 10:49:19 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2022-06-24 13:27:59 +0300
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Bonding: add per-port priority for failover re-selection
Add per port priority support for bonding active slave re-selection during failover. A higher number means higher priority in selection. The primary slave still has the highest priority. This option also follows the primary_reselect rules. This option could only be configured via netlink. Signed-off-by: Hangbin Liu <liuhangbin@gmail.com> Acked-by: Jonathan Toppins <jtoppins@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@@ -780,6 +780,17 @@ peer_notif_delay
value is 0 which means to match the value of the link monitor
interval.
+prio
+ Slave priority. A higher number means higher priority.
+ The primary slave has the highest priority. This option also
+ follows the primary_reselect rules.
+
+ This option could only be configured via netlink, and is only valid
+ for active-backup(1), balance-tlb (5) and balance-alb (6) mode.
+ The valid value range is a signed 32 bit integer.
+
+ The default value is 0.
+
primary
A string (eth0, eth2, etc) specifying which slave is the