• Aaron Conole's avatar
    net: openvswitch: add support for l4 symmetric hashing · e069ba07
    Aaron Conole authored
    Since its introduction, the ovs module execute_hash action allowed
    hash algorithms other than the skb->l4_hash to be used.  However,
    additional hash algorithms were not implemented.  This means flows
    requiring different hash distributions weren't able to use the
    kernel datapath.
    
    Now, introduce support for symmetric hashing algorithm as an
    alternative hash supported by the ovs module using the flow
    dissector.
    
    Output of flow using l4_sym hash:
    
        recirc_id(0),in_port(3),eth(),eth_type(0x0800),
        ipv4(dst=64.0.0.0/192.0.0.0,proto=6,frag=no), packets:30473425,
        bytes:45902883702, used:0.000s, flags:SP.,
        actions:hash(sym_l4(0)),recirc(0xd)
    
    Some performance testing with no GRO/GSO, two veths, single flow:
    
        hash(l4(0)):      4.35 GBits/s
        hash(l4_sym(0)):  4.24 GBits/s
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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