netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 07/10] net/ipv6: Add support for path selection using hash of 5-tuple

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Date:   Fri, 2 Mar 2018 15:52:40 +0200
From:   Ido Schimmel <idosch@...sch.org>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
        roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com,
        tom@...bertland.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next 07/10] net/ipv6: Add support for path
 selection using hash of 5-tuple

On Thu, Mar 01, 2018 at 07:29:47PM -0800, David Ahern wrote:
> Some operators prefer IPv6 path selection to use a standard 5-tuple
> hash rather than just an L3 hash with the flow the label. To that end
> add support to IPv6 for multipath hash policy similar to bf4e0a3db97eb
> ("net: ipv4: add support for ECMP hash policy choice"). The default
> is still L3 which covers source and destination addresses along with
> flow label and IPv6 protocol.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>

Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>
Tested-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@...lanox.com>