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

From: Hannes Frederic Sowa
Date: Mon Oct 24 2016 - 05:39:44 EST


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@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>