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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-07-01 16:07:50 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2016-07-01 16:07:50 -0400 |
| commit | eb70db8756717b90c01ccc765fdefc4dd969fc74 (patch) | |
| tree | 80c89c33271947ab3785bcaeb66bd21a8b416c7d /include | |
| parent | 08df7bc5001e7fc8bdb0a74e04ad2db5f797ed3d (diff) | |
| download | linux-eb70db8756717b90c01ccc765fdefc4dd969fc74.tar.bz2 | |
packet: Use symmetric hash for PACKET_FANOUT_HASH.
People who use PACKET_FANOUT_HASH want a symmetric hash, meaning that
they want packets going in both directions on a flow to hash to the
same bucket.
The core kernel SKB hash became non-symmetric when the ipv6 flow label
and other entities were incorporated into the standard flow hash order
to increase entropy.
But there are no users of PACKET_FANOUT_HASH who want an assymetric
hash, they all want a symmetric one.
Therefore, use the flow dissector to compute a flat symmetric hash
over only the protocol, addresses and ports. This hash does not get
installed into and override the normal skb hash, so this change has
no effect whatsoever on the rest of the stack.
Reported-by: Eric Leblond <eric@regit.org>
Tested-by: Eric Leblond <eric@regit.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/skbuff.h | 1 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/skbuff.h b/include/linux/skbuff.h index ee38a4127475..24859d40acde 100644 --- a/include/linux/skbuff.h +++ b/include/linux/skbuff.h @@ -1062,6 +1062,7 @@ __skb_set_sw_hash(struct sk_buff *skb, __u32 hash, bool is_l4) } void __skb_get_hash(struct sk_buff *skb); +u32 __skb_get_hash_symmetric(struct sk_buff *skb); u32 skb_get_poff(const struct sk_buff *skb); u32 __skb_get_poff(const struct sk_buff *skb, void *data, const struct flow_keys *keys, int hlen); |