netdev - Re: Load Balancing for AF

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Date:	Thu, 17 Dec 2015 06:45:35 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Prashant Upadhyaya <praupadhyaya@...il.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Load Balancing for AF_INET Raw Sockets

On Thu, 2015-12-17 at 11:40 +0530, Prashant Upadhyaya wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 15, 2015 at 8:09 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-12-15 at 18:26 +0530, Prashant Upadhyaya wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I open a raw socket for listening to all the UDP packets in a raw fashion --
> >>
> >> socket(AF_INET, SOCK_RAW, IPPROTO_UDP);
> >>
> >> Then I use recvfrom to read the packets over the socket.
> >>
> >> The above works mighty fine.
> >> I want to find out if it is possible to 'load balance' the UDP flows
> >> by opening up multiple instances of this socket and then possibly
> >> setting some socket options so that I can scale up the reading via
> >> multiple threads doing recvfrom on these from multiple cores.
> >> (I know it is possible over packet sockets, but that is a different usecase)
> >
> > No plan yet to support fanout on multiple raw sockets.
> >
> >
> Hi,
> 
> One question on the AF_INET6 raw sockets.
> Here I don't get the ipv6 header at all when I read a packet.
> I checked the RFC 3542 and it specifies the following as the ancillary
> data which can be obtained --
> 
> Four similar pieces of information can be returned for a received
>    packet as ancillary data:
> 
>       1.  the destination IPv6 address,
>       2.  the arriving interface index,
>       3.  the arriving hop limit, and
>       4.  the arriving traffic class value.
> 
> Now how do I obtain the 'src IPv6 address' ?

man recvfrom



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