netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v3] net: ipv4: add support for ECMP hash policy choice

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Message-Id: <7782A16C-78B4-4A5D-BE8D-6DDF2E9B3C66@cumulusnetworks.com>
Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2017 13:27:14 +0200
From:   Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com>
To:     nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com
Cc:     David Ahern <dsa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
        Roopa Prabhu <roopa@...ulusnetworks.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, jkbs@...hat.com,
        Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Peter Christensen <pch@...bogen.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v3] net: ipv4: add support for ECMP hash policy choice


> On Mar 15, 2017, at 1:18 PM, Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com> wrote:
> 
> Le 15/03/2017 à 11:46, Nikolay Aleksandrov a écrit :
> [snip]
>> This doesn’t fit the NETCONFA model well, there is no “all”, “default” or per iface option to be set, also
>> the other multipath sysctl which affects behaviour doesn’t have a notification.
> Right. Maybe adding a "system-wide" option can help, but it's probably another
> patch to add netconf support for other ecmp properties.
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> Nicolas

Yep, sounds good.
I’ll add the netlink support for system-wide NETCONFA and ecmp as follow up patches so we can
have a separate discussion on the design there.

Thanks,
 Nik