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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-06 09:38:14 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-08-06 09:38:14 -0700
commitae045e2455429c418a418a3376301a9e5753a0a8 (patch)
treeb445bdeecd3f38aa0d0a29c9585cee49e4ccb0f1 /Documentation/networking/bonding.txt
parentf4f142ed4ef835709c7e6d12eaca10d190bcebed (diff)
parentd247b6ab3ce6dd43665780865ec5fa145d9ab6bd (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next
Pull networking updates from David Miller: "Highlights: 1) Steady transitioning of the BPF instructure to a generic spot so all kernel subsystems can make use of it, from Alexei Starovoitov. 2) SFC driver supports busy polling, from Alexandre Rames. 3) Take advantage of hash table in UDP multicast delivery, from David Held. 4) Lighten locking, in particular by getting rid of the LRU lists, in inet frag handling. From Florian Westphal. 5) Add support for various RFC6458 control messages in SCTP, from Geir Ola Vaagland. 6) Allow to filter bridge forwarding database dumps by device, from Jamal Hadi Salim. 7) virtio-net also now supports busy polling, from Jason Wang. 8) Some low level optimization tweaks in pktgen from Jesper Dangaard Brouer. 9) Add support for ipv6 address generation modes, so that userland can have some input into the process. From Jiri Pirko. 10) Consolidate common TCP connection request code in ipv4 and ipv6, from Octavian Purdila. 11) New ARP packet logger in netfilter, from Pablo Neira Ayuso. 12) Generic resizable RCU hash table, with intial users in netlink and nftables. From Thomas Graf. 13) Maintain a name assignment type so that userspace can see where a network device name came from (enumerated by kernel, assigned explicitly by userspace, etc.) From Tom Gundersen. 14) Automatic flow label generation on transmit in ipv6, from Tom Herbert. 15) New packet timestamping facilities from Willem de Bruijn, meant to assist in measuring latencies going into/out-of the packet scheduler, latency from TCP data transmission to ACK, etc" * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1536 commits) cxgb4 : Disable recursive mailbox commands when enabling vi net: reduce USB network driver config options. tg3: Modify tg3_tso_bug() to handle multiple TX rings amd-xgbe: Perform phy connect/disconnect at dev open/stop amd-xgbe: Use dma_set_mask_and_coherent to set DMA mask net: sun4i-emac: fix memory leak on bad packet sctp: fix possible seqlock seadlock in sctp_packet_transmit() Revert "net: phy: Set the driver when registering an MDIO bus device" cxgb4vf: Turn off SGE RX/TX Callback Timers and interrupts in PCI shutdown routine team: Simplify return path of team_newlink bridge: Update outdated comment on promiscuous mode net-timestamp: ACK timestamp for bytestreams net-timestamp: TCP timestamping net-timestamp: SCHED timestamp on entering packet scheduler net-timestamp: add key to disambiguate concurrent datagrams net-timestamp: move timestamp flags out of sk_flags net-timestamp: extend SCM_TIMESTAMPING ancillary data struct cxgb4i : Move stray CPL definitions to cxgb4 driver tcp: reduce spurious retransmits due to transient SACK reneging qlcnic: Initialize dcbnl_ops before register_netdev ...
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@@ -542,10 +542,10 @@ mode
XOR policy: Transmit based on the selected transmit
hash policy. The default policy is a simple [(source
- MAC address XOR'd with destination MAC address) modulo
- slave count]. Alternate transmit policies may be
- selected via the xmit_hash_policy option, described
- below.
+ MAC address XOR'd with destination MAC address XOR
+ packet type ID) modulo slave count]. Alternate transmit
+ policies may be selected via the xmit_hash_policy option,
+ described below.
This mode provides load balancing and fault tolerance.
@@ -801,10 +801,11 @@ xmit_hash_policy
layer2
- Uses XOR of hardware MAC addresses to generate the
- hash. The formula is
+ Uses XOR of hardware MAC addresses and packet type ID
+ field to generate the hash. The formula is
- (source MAC XOR destination MAC) modulo slave count
+ hash = source MAC XOR destination MAC XOR packet type ID
+ slave number = hash modulo slave count
This algorithm will place all traffic to a particular
network peer on the same slave.
@@ -819,7 +820,7 @@ xmit_hash_policy
Uses XOR of hardware MAC addresses and IP addresses to
generate the hash. The formula is
- hash = source MAC XOR destination MAC
+ hash = source MAC XOR destination MAC XOR packet type ID
hash = hash XOR source IP XOR destination IP
hash = hash XOR (hash RSHIFT 16)
hash = hash XOR (hash RSHIFT 8)
@@ -2301,13 +2302,13 @@ broadcast: Like active-backup, there is not much advantage to this
bandwidth.
Additionally, the linux bonding 802.3ad implementation
- distributes traffic by peer (using an XOR of MAC addresses),
- so in a "gatewayed" configuration, all outgoing traffic will
- generally use the same device. Incoming traffic may also end
- up on a single device, but that is dependent upon the
- balancing policy of the peer's 8023.ad implementation. In a
- "local" configuration, traffic will be distributed across the
- devices in the bond.
+ distributes traffic by peer (using an XOR of MAC addresses
+ and packet type ID), so in a "gatewayed" configuration, all
+ outgoing traffic will generally use the same device. Incoming
+ traffic may also end up on a single device, but that is
+ dependent upon the balancing policy of the peer's 8023.ad
+ implementation. In a "local" configuration, traffic will be
+ distributed across the devices in the bond.
Finally, the 802.3ad mode mandates the use of the MII monitor,
therefore, the ARP monitor is not available in this mode.