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ECMP (equal-cost multipath) hashes are typically computed on the packets' 5-tuple(src IP, dst IP, src port, dst port, L4 proto). For encapsulated packets, the L4 data is not readily available and ECMP hashing will often revert to (src IP, dst IP). This will lead to traffic polarization on a single ECMP path, causing congestion and waste of network capacity. In IPv6, the 20-bit flow label field is also used as part of the ECMP hash. In the lack of L4 data, the hashing will be on (src IP, dst IP, flow label). Having a non-zero flow label is thus important for proper traffic load balancing when L4 data is unavailable (i.e., when packets are encapsulated). Currently, the seg6_do_srh_encap() function extracts the original packet's flow label and set it as the outer IPv6 flow label. There are two issues with this behaviour: a) There is no guarantee that the inner flow label is set by the source. b) If the original packet is not IPv6, the flow label will be set to zero (e.g., IPv4 or L2 encap). This patch adds a function, named seg6_make_flowlabel(), that computes a flow label from a given skb. It supports IPv6, IPv4 and L2 payloads, and leverages the per namespace 'seg6_flowlabel" sysctl value. The currently support behaviours are as follows: -1 set flowlabel to zero. 0 copy flowlabel from Inner paceket in case of Inner IPv6 (Set flowlabel to 0 in case IPv4/L2) 1 Compute the flowlabel using seg6_make_flowlabel() This patch has been tested for IPv6, IPv4, and L2 traffic. Signed-off-by: Ahmed Abdelsalam <amsalam20@gmail.com> Acked-by: David Lebrun <dlebrun@google.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.