linux/drivers/net
John Eaglesham 6b923cb718 bonding: support for IPv6 transmit hashing
Currently the "bonding" driver does not support load balancing outgoing
traffic in LACP mode for IPv6 traffic. IPv4 (and TCP or UDP over IPv4)
are currently supported; this patch adds transmit hashing for IPv6 (and
TCP or UDP over IPv6), bringing IPv6 up to par with IPv4 support in the
bonding driver. In addition, bounds checking has been added to all
transmit hashing functions.

The algorithm chosen (xor'ing the bottom three quads of the source and
destination addresses together, then xor'ing each byte of that result into
the bottom byte, finally xor'ing with the last bytes of the MAC addresses)
was selected after testing almost 400,000 unique IPv6 addresses harvested
from server logs. This algorithm had the most even distribution for both
big- and little-endian architectures while still using few instructions. Its
behavior also attempts to closely match that of the IPv4 algorithm.

The IPv6 flow label was intentionally not included in the hash as it appears
to be unset in the vast majority of IPv6 traffic sampled, and the current
algorithm not using the flow label already offers a very even distribution.

Fragmented IPv6 packets are handled the same way as fragmented IPv4 packets,
ie, they are not balanced based on layer 4 information. Additionally,
IPv6 packets with intermediate headers are not balanced based on layer
4 information. In practice these intermediate headers are not common and
this should not cause any problems, and the alternative (a packet-parsing
loop and look-up table) seemed slow and complicated for little gain.

Tested-by: John Eaglesham <linux@8192.net>
Signed-off-by: John Eaglesham <linux@8192.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2012-08-22 22:49:30 -07:00
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appletalk net: Use PTR_RET rather than if(IS_ERR(.. [1] 2012-08-06 13:30:02 -07:00
arcnet
bonding bonding: support for IPv6 transmit hashing 2012-08-22 22:49:30 -07:00
caif caif: fix NULL pointer check 2012-07-24 13:54:16 -07:00
can net/c_can: remove conditional compilation of clk code 2012-07-30 17:25:12 -07:00
cris cris: fix eth_v10.c build error 2012-08-03 20:32:31 -07:00
dsa
ethernet Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jkirsher/net-next 2012-08-22 14:23:43 -07:00
fddi
hamradio
hippi
hyperv net: move and rename netif_notify_peers() 2012-08-14 14:28:23 -07:00
irda drivers/net/irda: fix error return code 2012-08-20 02:33:21 -07:00
phy netdev/phy: skip disabled mdio-mux nodes 2012-08-20 02:16:00 -07:00
plip
ppp Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-08-22 14:21:38 -07:00
slip
team Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-08-22 14:21:38 -07:00
usb net: qmi_wwan: new devices: UML290 and K5006-Z 2012-08-20 02:17:41 -07:00
vmxnet3 vmxnet3: Fix race between dev_open() and register_netdev() 2012-08-15 15:10:42 -07:00
wan drivers/net/wan/dscc4.c: fix error return code 2012-08-20 02:33:21 -07:00
wimax drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/fw.c: fix error return code 2012-08-20 02:33:21 -07:00
wireless Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net 2012-08-22 14:21:38 -07:00
xen-netback xen/netback: only non-freed SKB is queued into tx_queue 2012-06-29 00:50:20 -07:00
dummy.c net: fix race condition in several drivers when reading stats 2012-07-22 12:12:32 -07:00
eql.c
ifb.c
Kconfig
LICENSE.SRC
loopback.c net: Loopback ifindex is constant now 2012-08-09 16:18:07 -07:00
macvlan.c
macvtap.c macvtap: rcu_dereference outside read-lock section 2012-08-12 13:40:48 -07:00
Makefile
mdio.c
mii.c
netconsole.c netconsole: remove a redundant netconsole_target_put() 2012-08-20 02:59:49 -07:00
rionet.c
sb1000.c
Space.c
sungem_phy.c
tun.c tun: don't zeroize sock->file on detach 2012-08-09 16:16:14 -07:00
veth.c veth: Allow to create peer link with given ifindex 2012-08-09 16:18:07 -07:00
virtio_net.c net: move and rename netif_notify_peers() 2012-08-14 14:28:23 -07:00
xen-netfront.c net: move and rename netif_notify_peers() 2012-08-14 14:28:23 -07:00