From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pravin Subject: question abt equal cost multipath networking Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 01:41:02 +0530 Message-ID: Reply-To: pravin.shelar@gmail.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Return-path: To: netdev@oss.sgi.com Content-Disposition: inline Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Hello everyone, I am working on equal cost multipath networking code in Linux kernel. I studied the device round robin algorithm for the same. The drr algorithm examines use count of devices to select outgoing device. The use count is defined as number of sessions opened on that device up till now. But this does not necessarily give us current load on a device. We can use some other metric to select the outgoing device e.g. current device packet-queue length. So is there any specific reason for choosing use count as a metric for this algorithm. Can I change this metric to some different parameter e.g. device queue length or number of open sessions on a device at present? Thanks, Pravin. PS. I'm not on the list, so please CC me.