bonding: add weight support for active-backup mode

Not all interfaces have the same characteristics within the bonding group.
For active-backup mode, we should do our best to select the slave that
performs the best as the primary slave. We already did that by preferring
the slave that is local numa. Sometimes, this is not enough. For example,
when all are local numas, the selection is arbitrary. Some slave interfaces
may have higher speed or better qos than the others. But this is hard to
infer.

One rule does not fit all. So we let the operator to optionally specify the
weight for each slave interface. Our primary slave selection rule is now
1. biggest weight
2. is local numa
3. current primary slave (to avoid churn)
4. lowest sw_if_index (for deterministic behavior)

This selection rule only applies to active-backup mode which only one slave
is used for forwarding traffic until it becomes unreachable. At that time,
the next "best" slave candidate is automatically promoted. The slaves are
sorted according to the preference rule when they are up. So there is no need
to find the next best candidate when the primary slave goes down.

Another good thing about this rule is when the down slave comes back up, it
is selected as the primary slave again unless there is indeed a "better"
slave than this down slave that were added during that period.

To set the weight for the slave interface, do this after the interface is
enslaved

set interface bond <interface-name> weight <value>

Type: feature

Signed-off-by: Steven Luong <sluong@cisco.com>
Change-Id: I59ced6d20ce1dec532e667dbe1afd1b4243e04f9

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