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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/networking')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.txt | 44 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/filter.txt | 13 |
2 files changed, 49 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt index a383c00392d0..9c723ecd0025 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.txt @@ -585,13 +585,19 @@ mode balance-tlb or 5 Adaptive transmit load balancing: channel bonding that - does not require any special switch support. The - outgoing traffic is distributed according to the - current load (computed relative to the speed) on each - slave. Incoming traffic is received by the current - slave. If the receiving slave fails, another slave - takes over the MAC address of the failed receiving - slave. + does not require any special switch support. + + In tlb_dynamic_lb=1 mode; the outgoing traffic is + distributed according to the current load (computed + relative to the speed) on each slave. + + In tlb_dynamic_lb=0 mode; the load balancing based on + current load is disabled and the load is distributed + only using the hash distribution. + + Incoming traffic is received by the current slave. + If the receiving slave fails, another slave takes over + the MAC address of the failed receiving slave. Prerequisite: @@ -736,6 +742,28 @@ primary_reselect This option was added for bonding version 3.6.0. +tlb_dynamic_lb + + Specifies if dynamic shuffling of flows is enabled in tlb + mode. The value has no effect on any other modes. + + The default behavior of tlb mode is to shuffle active flows across + slaves based on the load in that interval. This gives nice lb + characteristics but can cause packet reordering. If re-ordering is + a concern use this variable to disable flow shuffling and rely on + load balancing provided solely by the hash distribution. + xmit-hash-policy can be used to select the appropriate hashing for + the setup. + + The sysfs entry can be used to change the setting per bond device + and the initial value is derived from the module parameter. The + sysfs entry is allowed to be changed only if the bond device is + down. + + The default value is "1" that enables flow shuffling while value "0" + disables it. This option was added in bonding driver 3.7.1 + + updelay Specifies the time, in milliseconds, to wait before enabling a @@ -769,7 +797,7 @@ use_carrier xmit_hash_policy Selects the transmit hash policy to use for slave selection in - balance-xor and 802.3ad modes. Possible values are: + balance-xor, 802.3ad, and tlb modes. Possible values are: layer2 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/filter.txt b/Documentation/networking/filter.txt index 81f940f4e884..82e1cb0b3da8 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/filter.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/filter.txt @@ -281,6 +281,7 @@ Possible BPF extensions are shown in the following table: cpu raw_smp_processor_id() vlan_tci vlan_tx_tag_get(skb) vlan_pr vlan_tx_tag_present(skb) + rand prandom_u32() These extensions can also be prefixed with '#'. Examples for low-level BPF: @@ -308,6 +309,18 @@ Examples for low-level BPF: ret #-1 drop: ret #0 +** icmp random packet sampling, 1 in 4 + ldh [12] + jne #0x800, drop + ldb [23] + jneq #1, drop + # get a random uint32 number + ld rand + mod #4 + jneq #1, drop + ret #-1 + drop: ret #0 + ** SECCOMP filter example: ld [4] /* offsetof(struct seccomp_data, arch) */ |