[PATCHES] ctdb-eventscripts: Deleting IPs should use the promote_secondaries option

[Martin Schwenke]

If a primary IP address is being deleted from an interface, the
secondaries are remembered and added back after the primary is
deleted.  This is done under a lock shared by the add/del script code.
It is necessary because, by default, Linux deletes secondaries when
the corresponding primary is deleted.

There is a race here between ctdbd and the scripts, since ctdbd
doesn't know about the lock.  If ctdbd receives a release IP control
and the IP address is not on an interface then it is regarded as a
"Redundant release of IP" so no "releaseip" event is generated.  This
can occur if the IP address in question is a secondary that has been
temporarily dropped.  It is more likely if the number of secondaries
is large.

Since Linux 2.6.12 (i.e. 2005) Linux has supported a
promote_secondaries option on interfaces.  This option is currently
undocumented but that will change in Linux 3.14.  With
promote_secondaries enabled the kernel will not drop secondaries but
will promote a corresponding secondary instead.  The kernel does all
necessary locking.

Use promote_secondaries to simplify the code, avoid re-adding
secondaries, avoid re-adding routes and provide improved performance.

This could be done conditionally, with a fallback to legacy
secondary-re-adding code, but no supported Linux distribution is
running a pre-2.6.12 kernel so this is unnecessary.

Signed-off-by: Martin Schwenke <martin at meltin.net>
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There are 2 patches here but the 2nd just updates test code...

Please review and push if OK.

These patches are in my ctdb branch:

  http://git.samba.org/?p=martins/samba.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/ctdb

peace & happiness,
martin
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