From: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
To: nicolas.dichtel@6wind.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: roopa@cumulusnetworks.com, nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com,
idosch@mellanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 5/7] net/ipv6: Add support for path selection using hash of 5-tuple
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 14:02:24 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <471f66fb-8f1e-bddb-7d01-1f274d24ce71@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7f34923d-6531-5394-97e8-21bfddf290c6@6wind.com>
On 2/13/18 1:59 PM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
> Le 13/02/2018 à 21:35, David Ahern a écrit :
>> On 2/13/18 1:31 PM, Nicolas Dichtel wrote:
>>> Le 13/02/2018 à 01:06, David Ahern a écrit :
>>>> Some operators prefer IPv6 path selection to use a standard 5-tuple
>>>> hash rather than just an L3 hash with the flow the label. To that end
>>>> add support to IPv6 for multipath hash policy similar to bf4e0a3db97eb
>>>> ("net: ipv4: add support for ECMP hash policy choice"). The default
>>>> is still L3 which covers source and destination addresses along with
>>>> flow label and IPv6 protocol.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
>>>> ---
>>> Do you plan to add the nl NETCONF support for this new sysctl?
>>>
>>
>> hmmm.... doesn't exist for the current IPv4 version, but in-kernel
>> drivers are notified. I wasn't planning on it, but it can be added.
>>
> Right for ipv4, it was on my todo list ;-)
>
Awesome, then ipv6 is a 1-liner after you add ipv4 support. :-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-02-13 21:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-02-13 0:05 [PATCH RFC net-next 0/7] net/ipv6: Add support for path selection using hash of 5-tuple David Ahern
2018-02-13 0:05 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 1/7] net/ipv4: Pass net to fib_multipath_hash instead of fib_info David Ahern
2018-02-13 0:05 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 2/7] net: Align ip_multipath_l3_keys and ip6_multipath_l3_keys David Ahern
2018-02-13 0:05 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 3/7] net/ipv6: Make rt6_multipath_hash similar to fib_multipath_hash David Ahern
2018-02-13 0:05 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 4/7] net: Rename NETEVENT_MULTIPATH_HASH_UPDATE David Ahern
2018-02-13 0:06 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 5/7] net/ipv6: Add support for path selection using hash of 5-tuple David Ahern
2018-02-13 20:31 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2018-02-13 20:35 ` David Ahern
2018-02-13 20:59 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2018-02-13 21:02 ` David Ahern [this message]
2018-02-13 21:21 ` Nicolas Dichtel
2018-02-21 16:22 ` Ido Schimmel
2018-02-21 17:54 ` David Ahern
2018-02-13 0:06 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 6/7] mlxsw: spectrum_router: Add support for ipv6 hash policy update David Ahern
2018-02-13 0:06 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 7/7] net: Remove unused get_hash_from_flow functions David Ahern
2018-02-13 11:03 ` [PATCH RFC net-next 0/7] net/ipv6: Add support for path selection using hash of 5-tuple Or Gerlitz
2018-02-13 12:42 ` Ido Schimmel
2018-02-13 13:16 ` Or Gerlitz
2018-02-14 22:45 ` Or Gerlitz
2018-02-13 15:21 ` David Ahern
2018-02-14 22:45 ` Or Gerlitz
2018-02-14 22:56 ` David Ahern
2018-02-18 10:40 ` Or Gerlitz
2018-02-13 12:32 ` Ido Schimmel
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