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| author | Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com> | 2024-06-07 17:13:54 +0200 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2024-06-12 16:42:11 -0700 |
| commit | 4ee2a8cace3fb9a34aea6a56426f89d26dd514f3 (patch) | |
| tree | 88bbe000b835dea11df5aa5c109bd2988c15320c /Documentation/networking | |
| parent | 3e453ca122d483eb519f934b6624215f0536301c (diff) | |
net: ipv4: Add a sysctl to set multipath hash seed
When calculating hashes for the purpose of multipath forwarding, both IPv4
and IPv6 code currently fall back on flow_hash_from_keys(). That uses a
randomly-generated seed. That's a fine choice by default, but unfortunately
some deployments may need a tighter control over the seed used.
In this patch, make the seed configurable by adding a new sysctl key,
net.ipv4.fib_multipath_hash_seed to control the seed. This seed is used
specifically for multipath forwarding and not for the other concerns that
flow_hash_from_keys() is used for, such as queue selection. Expose the knob
as sysctl because other such settings, such as headers to hash, are also
handled that way. Like those, the multipath hash seed is a per-netns
variable.
Despite being placed in the net.ipv4 namespace, the multipath seed sysctl
is used for both IPv4 and IPv6, similarly to e.g. a number of TCP
variables.
The seed used by flow_hash_from_keys() is a 128-bit quantity. However it
seems that usually the seed is a much more modest value. 32 bits seem
typical (Cisco, Cumulus), some systems go even lower. For that reason, and
to decouple the user interface from implementation details, go with a
32-bit quantity, which is then quadruplicated to form the siphash key.
Signed-off-by: Petr Machata <petrm@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: Nikolay Aleksandrov <razor@blackwall.org>
Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsahern@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240607151357.421181-3-petrm@nvidia.com
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst | 14 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst index 6e99eccdb837..3616389c8c2d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.rst @@ -131,6 +131,20 @@ fib_multipath_hash_fields - UNSIGNED INTEGER Default: 0x0007 (source IP, destination IP and IP protocol) +fib_multipath_hash_seed - UNSIGNED INTEGER + The seed value used when calculating hash for multipath routes. Applies + to both IPv4 and IPv6 datapath. Only present for kernels built with + CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_MULTIPATH enabled. + + When set to 0, the seed value used for multipath routing defaults to an + internal random-generated one. + + The actual hashing algorithm is not specified -- there is no guarantee + that a next hop distribution effected by a given seed will keep stable + across kernel versions. + + Default: 0 (random) + fib_sync_mem - UNSIGNED INTEGER Amount of dirty memory from fib entries that can be backlogged before synchronize_rcu is forced. |