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From: Or Gerlitz <gerlitz.or@gmail.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>,
	Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@cumulusnetworks.com>,
	Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>,
	Tom Herbert <tom@herbertland.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 0/7] net/ipv6: Add support for path selection using hash of 5-tuple
Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 13:03:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAJ3xEMhtpmcNRNH9p5a2=RHCPZq1HW_y6pnPF45UAFVeCDgang@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180213000602.12150-1-dsahern@gmail.com>

On Tue, Feb 13, 2018 at 2:05 AM, David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hardware supports multipath selection using the standard L4 5-tuple
> instead of just L3 and the flow label. In addition, some network
> operators prefer IPv6 path selection to use the 5-tuple.

The HW supports using flow label and AFAIK that is the preferred approach
by the community (?)

> To that end, add support to IPv6 for multipath hash policy

so a question comes up if/what are the disadvantaged
to support 5-tuple. E.g Tom was commenting that such DPI is problematic
when multiple IPv6 header extensions are used.

> 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.
>
> A separate sysctl is added for IPv6, allowing IPv4 and IPv6 to use
> different algorithms if desired.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-13 11:03 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
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 ` Or Gerlitz [this message]
2018-02-13 12:42   ` [PATCH RFC net-next 0/7] net/ipv6: Add support for path selection using hash of 5-tuple 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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