Commit 9920e48b authored Oct 29, 2015 by Paolo Abeni Committed by David S. Miller Nov 02, 2015

ipv4: use l4 hash for locally generated multipath flows



This patch changes how the multipath hash is computed for locally
generated flows: now the hash comprises l4 information.

This allows better utilization of the available paths when the existing
flows have the same source IP and the same destination IP: with l3 hash,
even when multiple connections are in place simultaneously, a single path
will be used, while with l4 hash we can use all the available paths.

v2 changes:
- use get_hash_from_flowi4() instead of implementing just another l4 hash
  function

Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <pabeni@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent 1032a668

net/ipv4/fib_semantics.c

+2 −1

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		@@ -1564,7 +1564,8 @@ void fib_select_path(struct net net, struct fib_result res,
		#ifdef CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH
		if (res->fi->fib_nhs > 1 && fl4->flowi4_oif == 0) {
		if (mp_hash < 0)
		mp_hash = fib_multipath_hash(fl4->saddr, fl4->daddr);
		mp_hash = get_hash_from_flowi4(fl4) >> 1;

		fib_select_multipath(res, mp_hash);
		}
		else

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