From: Peter Nørlund <pch@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 29 Aug 2015 22:31:15 +0200 > 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? For now it seems best to just do L3 and make ipv4 and ipv6 behave the same. -- 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
