netdev - Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 5/7] net/ipv6: Add support for path selection using hash of 5-tuple

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Message-ID: <d9a21fe9-70da-8240-2d56-1ce9f187c4a9@6wind.com>
Date:   Tue, 13 Feb 2018 21:31:08 +0100
From:   Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>
To:     David Ahern <dsahern@...il.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     roopa@...ulusnetworks.com, nikolay@...ulusnetworks.com,
        idosch@...lanox.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC net-next 5/7] net/ipv6: Add support for path selection
 using hash of 5-tuple

Le 13/02/2018 à 01:06, David Ahern a écrit :
> 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>
> ---
Do you plan to add the nl NETCONF support for this new sysctl?


Regards,
Nicolas