netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2] ipv6: implement consistent hashing for equal-cost multipath routing

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Message-ID: <584130F6.5080802@uclouvain.be>
Date:   Fri, 2 Dec 2016 09:29:42 +0100
From:   David Lebrun <david.lebrun@...ouvain.be>
To:     Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>
CC:     Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH net-next v2] ipv6: implement consistent hashing for
 equal-cost multipath routing

On 12/01/2016 06:55 PM, Roopa Prabhu wrote:
> I think Its best for it to be a global setting, and thats why sysctl
> seems like the best way (unless there are other ways to set this
> globally via rtnetlink). If it helps, most hw switch vendors
> supporting this feature also provide a globally tunable knob and it is
> not on by default.

What I had in mind was to keep the global sysctl but also provide a
per-route attribute, which would default to the global sysctl.

David


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