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| author | Ido Schimmel <idosch@OSS.NVIDIA.COM> | 2021-05-17 21:15:18 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2021-05-18 13:27:32 -0700 |
| commit | ce5c9c20d364f156c885efed8c71fca2945db00f (patch) | |
| tree | bb4858afb789ab04d7330dc3bff07f999814bbff /Documentation | |
| parent | 2e68ea92684181412b73979baf1af7d04619c52c (diff) | |
| download | linux-ce5c9c20d364f156c885efed8c71fca2945db00f.tar.bz2 | |
ipv4: Add a sysctl to control multipath hash fields
A subsequent patch will add a new multipath hash policy where the packet
fields used for multipath hash calculation are determined by user space.
This patch adds a sysctl that allows user space to set these fields.
The packet fields are represented using a bitmask and are common between
IPv4 and IPv6 to allow user space to use the same numbering across both
protocols. For example, to hash based on standard 5-tuple:
# sysctl -w net.ipv4.fib_multipath_hash_fields=0x0037
net.ipv4.fib_multipath_hash_fields = 0x0037
The kernel rejects unknown fields, for example:
# sysctl -w net.ipv4.fib_multipath_hash_fields=0x1000
sysctl: setting key "net.ipv4.fib_multipath_hash_fields": Invalid argument
More fields can be added in the future, if needed.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 27 |
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst index c2ecc9894fd0..47494798d03b 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst @@ -100,6 +100,33 @@ fib_multipath_hash_policy - INTEGER - 1 - Layer 4 - 2 - Layer 3 or inner Layer 3 if present +fib_multipath_hash_fields - UNSIGNED INTEGER + When fib_multipath_hash_policy is set to 3 (custom multipath hash), the + fields used for multipath hash calculation are determined by this + sysctl. + + This value is a bitmask which enables various fields for multipath hash + calculation. + + Possible fields are: + + ====== ============================ + 0x0001 Source IP address + 0x0002 Destination IP address + 0x0004 IP protocol + 0x0008 Unused (Flow Label) + 0x0010 Source port + 0x0020 Destination port + 0x0040 Inner source IP address + 0x0080 Inner destination IP address + 0x0100 Inner IP protocol + 0x0200 Inner Flow Label + 0x0400 Inner source port + 0x0800 Inner destination port + ====== ============================ + + Default: 0x0007 (source IP, destination IP and IP protocol) + fib_sync_mem - UNSIGNED INTEGER Amount of dirty memory from fib entries that can be backlogged before synchronize_rcu is forced. |