On Sat, Aug 29, 2015 at 1:46 PM, David Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. That makes mapping the hash to offload hardware easier also. -- 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
