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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Jiri Pirko
2013-03-06 01:31:13 +00:00
committed by David S. Miller
parent acbba0d0f8
commit 753f993911
5 changed files with 105 additions and 21 deletions

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@@ -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