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authorJiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>2013-03-06 01:31:13 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-03-06 14:55:20 -0500
commit753f993911b32e479b4fab5d228dc07c11d1e7e7 (patch)
treef2b3e9f3d6c06366ac24e5222f2475b319bc379f /drivers/net/team/Kconfig
parentacbba0d0f88e2577b9d92b61b136d13f65831a52 (diff)
downloadlinux-753f993911b32e479b4fab5d228dc07c11d1e7e7.tar.bz2
team: introduce random mode
As suggested by Eric Dumazet, allow user to select mode which chooses TX port randomly. Functionality should be more of less similar to round-robin mode with even lower overhead. Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/drivers/net/team/Kconfig b/drivers/net/team/Kconfig
index c3011af68e91..c853d84fd99f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/team/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/net/team/Kconfig
@@ -37,6 +37,18 @@ config NET_TEAM_MODE_ROUNDROBIN
To compile this team mode as a module, choose M here: the module
will be called team_mode_roundrobin.
+config NET_TEAM_MODE_RANDOM
+ tristate "Random mode support"
+ depends on NET_TEAM
+ ---help---
+ Basic mode where port used for transmitting packets is selected
+ randomly.
+
+ All added ports are setup to have team's device address.
+
+ To compile this team mode as a module, choose M here: the module
+ will be called team_mode_random.
+
config NET_TEAM_MODE_ACTIVEBACKUP
tristate "Active-backup mode support"
depends on NET_TEAM