Netmap with bonded interfaces

[Paras Jha]

It's possible to bypass this by unloading and reloading the patched network
driver

On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 12:39 AM, Vincenzo Maffione <v.maffione at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi,
>   It is an expected behaviour that you cannot open eth4 and eth5 if they
> are bond, as the device are being used by the lagg pseudo-driver.
> Since this driver does not have netmap support for the moment being, there
> is no way you can get the native mode performance if you use lagg.
>
> If you just need some failover in your application, you could just
> implement a simple failover mechanism in your application (e.g. the
> application opens both netmap:eth4 and netmap:eth5, and decides which one
> to use for transmission depending on which one is up...).
>
> Cheers,
>   Vincenzo
>
> 2017-06-29 4:16 GMT+02:00 Paras Jha <dreadiscool at gmail.com>:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I have a bonded interface bond0 which enslaves eth4 and eth5. When trying
>> to open the devices eth4 or eth5 via netmap, I get a "device in use"
>> error.
>> Opening the bond0 interface directly in netmap works, however it is in
>> emulated mode (as expected of a pseudointerface)
>>
>> What is the idiomatic way to proceed in such a situation, without
>> compromising on speed?
>>
>> Thanks
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>
>
> --
> Vincenzo Maffione
>