netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: Extend struct flowi6 with multipath hash

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Message-ID: <68209ce2-749c-ef7e-08a7-6414d2ba680c@stressinduktion.org>
Date:   Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:39:29 +0200
From:   Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
To:     Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@...hat.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: Extend struct flowi6 with multipath
 hash

On 24.10.2016 11:28, Jakub Sitnicki wrote:
> Allow for functions that fill out the IPv6 flow info to also pass a hash
> computed over the skb contents. The hash value will drive the multipath
> routing decisions.
> 
> This is intended for special treatment of ICMPv6 errors, where we would
> like to make a routing decision based on the flow identifying the
> offending IPv6 datagram that triggered the error, rather than the flow
> of the ICMP error itself.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@...hat.com>

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>