On Sat, 29 Aug 2015 13:14:29 -0700 (PDT) David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: pch@xxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 22:00:47 +0200 > > > When the routing cache was removed in 3.6, the IPv4 multipath > > algorithm changed from more or less being destination-based into > > being quasi-random per-packet scheduling. This increases the risk > > of out-of-order packets and makes it impossible to use multipath > > together with anycast services. > > Don't even try to be fancy. > > Simply kill the round-robin stuff off completely, and make hash based > routing the one and only mode, no special configuration stuff > necessary. I like the sound of that! Just to be clear - are you telling me to stick with L3 and skip the L4 part? > > This puts ipv4 in line with ipv6, and nobody cares about the existing > round robin behavior at all. > > Thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
