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Commit ce5c9c20 authored by Ido Schimmel's avatar Ido Schimmel Committed by David S. Miller
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ipv4: Add a sysctl to control multipath hash fields



A subsequent patch will add a new multipath hash policy where the packet
fields used for multipath hash calculation are determined by user space.
This patch adds a sysctl that allows user space to set these fields.

The packet fields are represented using a bitmask and are common between
IPv4 and IPv6 to allow user space to use the same numbering across both
protocols. For example, to hash based on standard 5-tuple:

 # sysctl -w net.ipv4.fib_multipath_hash_fields=0x0037
 net.ipv4.fib_multipath_hash_fields = 0x0037

The kernel rejects unknown fields, for example:

 # sysctl -w net.ipv4.fib_multipath_hash_fields=0x1000
 sysctl: setting key "net.ipv4.fib_multipath_hash_fields": Invalid argument

More fields can be added in the future, if needed.

Signed-off-by: default avatarIdo Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 2e68ea92
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