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Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: Extend struct flowi6 with multipath hash

From Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: Extend struct flowi6 with multipath hash
Date 2016-10-24 11:40 +0200
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On 24.10.2016 11:28, Jakub Sitnicki wrote:
> Allow for functions that fill out the IPv6 flow info to also pass a hash
> computed over the skb contents. The hash value will drive the multipath
> routing decisions.
> 
> This is intended for special treatment of ICMPv6 errors, where we would
> like to make a routing decision based on the flow identifying the
> offending IPv6 datagram that triggered the error, rather than the flow
> of the ICMP error itself.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@redhat.com>

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>

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[PATCH net-next 0/5] Route ICMPv6 errors with the flow when ECMP in use Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@redhat.com> - 2016-10-24 11:30 +0200
  [PATCH net-next 3/5] ipv6: Use multipath hash from flow info if available Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@redhat.com> - 2016-10-24 11:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH net-next 3/5] ipv6: Use multipath hash from flow info if  available Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-10-24 11:50 +0200
  [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: Extend struct flowi6 with multipath hash Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@redhat.com> - 2016-10-24 11:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: Extend struct flowi6 with multipath  hash Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org> - 2016-10-24 11:40 +0200
  [PATCH net-next 1/5] ipv6: Fold rt6_info_hash_nhsfn() into its only caller Jakub Sitnicki <jkbs@redhat.com> - 2016-10-24 11:40 +0200

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