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    bonding: refactor ARP active-backup monitor · b2220cad
    Jay Vosburgh authored
    
    
    	Refactor ARP monitor for active-backup mode.  The motivation for
    this is to take care of locking issues in a clear manner (particularly to
    correctly handle RTNL vs. the bonding locks).  Currently, the a-b ARP
    monitor does not hold RTNL at all, but future changes will require RTNL
    during ARP monitor failovers.
    
    	Rather than using conditional locking, this patch instead breaks
    up the ARP monitor into three discrete steps: inspection, commit changes,
    and probe.  The inspection phase marks slaves that require link state
    changes.  The commit phase is only called if inspection detects that
    changes are needed, and is called with RTNL.  Lastly, the probe phase
    issues the ARP probes that the inspection phase uses to determine link
    state.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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