Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757233AbcJXJjd (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2016 05:39:33 -0400 Received: from out1-smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:51445 "EHLO out1-smtp.messagingengine.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755264AbcJXJjc (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Oct 2016 05:39:32 -0400 X-ME-Sender: X-Sasl-enc: iM/d/UzJ/eYAsK94VXiTcauU6dhDPpFrZq3K7L+9rQHw 1477301970 Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 2/5] net: Extend struct flowi6 with multipath hash To: Jakub Sitnicki , netdev@vger.kernel.org References: <1477301332-23954-1-git-send-email-jkbs@redhat.com> <1477301332-23954-3-git-send-email-jkbs@redhat.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "David S. Miller" From: Hannes Frederic Sowa Message-ID: <68209ce2-749c-ef7e-08a7-6414d2ba680c@stressinduktion.org> Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2016 11:39:29 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1477301332-23954-3-git-send-email-jkbs@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 573 Lines: 13 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 Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa