From patchwork Sat Oct 29 01:18:39 2011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: John X-Patchwork-Id: 122520 X-Patchwork-Delegate: davem@davemloft.net Return-Path: X-Original-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@ozlabs.org Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5D92BB6F93 for ; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 12:18:41 +1100 (EST) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932998Ab1J2BSg (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:18:36 -0400 Received: from smtp191.iad.emailsrvr.com ([207.97.245.191]:53713 "EHLO smtp191.iad.emailsrvr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932806Ab1J2BSg (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:18:36 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp39.relay.iad1a.emailsrvr.com (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id C9EB898114; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:18:35 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: OK Received: by smtp39.relay.iad1a.emailsrvr.com (Authenticated sender: john-AT-8192.net) with ESMTPSA id 74754981ED; Fri, 28 Oct 2011 21:18:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <4EAB546F.3060800@8192.net> Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2011 18:18:39 -0700 From: John User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20110929 Thunderbird/7.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: netdev@vger.kernel.org CC: andy@greyhouse.net Subject: [PATCH 2/2] bonding: Doesn't support IPv6 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt 2011-09-01 12:15:38.000000000 -0700 +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt 2011-09-26 10:23:43.000000000 -0700 @@ -709,12 +709,22 @@ protocol information to generate the hash. Uses XOR of hardware MAC addresses and IP addresses to - generate the hash. The formula is + generate the hash. The IPv4 formula is (((source IP XOR dest IP) AND 0xffff) XOR ( source MAC XOR destination MAC )) modulo slave count + The IPv6 forumla is + + iphash = + (source ip quad 2 XOR dest IP quad 2) XOR + (source ip quad 3 XOR dest IP quad 3) XOR + (source ip quad 4 XOR dest IP quad 4) + + (iphash >> 16) XOR (iphash >> 8) XOR iphash + modulo slave count + This algorithm will place all traffic to a particular network peer on the same slave. For non-IP traffic, the formula is the same as for the layer2 transmit @@ -735,19 +745,30 @@ slaves, although a single connection will not span multiple slaves. - The formula for unfragmented TCP and UDP packets is + The formula for unfragmented IPv4 TCP and UDP packets is ((source port XOR dest port) XOR ((source IP XOR dest IP) AND 0xffff) modulo slave count - For fragmented TCP or UDP packets and all other IP - protocol traffic, the source and destination port + The formula for unfragmented IPv6 TCP and UDP packets is + + iphash = + (source ip quad 2 XOR dest IP quad 2) XOR + (source ip quad 3 XOR dest IP quad 3) XOR + (source ip quad 4 XOR dest IP quad 4) + + ((source port XOR dest port) XOR + (iphash >> 16) XOR (iphash >> 8) XOR iphash + modulo slave count + + For fragmented TCP or UDP packets and all other IPv4 and + IPv6 protocol traffic, the source and destination port information is omitted. For non-IP traffic, the formula is the same as for the layer2 transmit hash policy. - This policy is intended to mimic the behavior of + The IPv4 policy is intended to mimic the behavior of certain switches, notably Cisco switches with PFC2 as well as some Foundry and IBM products.