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| author | Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com> | 2010-12-03 16:41:34 -0800 |
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| committer | Ethan Jackson <ethan@nicira.com> | 2010-12-06 13:59:43 -0800 |
| commit | e58de0e38647f0ee62a8862e3565e5b788a03a7e (patch) | |
| tree | 28be48337dd779e7fe974ea92b0b465369855a12 /vswitchd/INTERNALS | |
| parent | 557c178b3147e8a1a5491010ee99f36dcaf7f1ab (diff) | |
| download | openvswitch-e58de0e38647f0ee62a8862e3565e5b788a03a7e.tar.gz | |
vswitchd: Incorporate vlan into bond hash.
With this patch vlan tags are incorporated into bond hashes in
addition to the source mac address.
NIC-294
Diffstat (limited to 'vswitchd/INTERNALS')
| -rw-r--r-- | vswitchd/INTERNALS | 13 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/vswitchd/INTERNALS b/vswitchd/INTERNALS index 300175627..6c1bdc16b 100644 --- a/vswitchd/INTERNALS +++ b/vswitchd/INTERNALS @@ -106,12 +106,13 @@ Bond Packet Output ------------------ When a packet is sent out a bond port, the bond slave actually used is -selected based on the packet's source MAC (see choose_output_iface()). -In particular, the source MAC is hashed into one of 256 values, and -that value is looked up in a hash table (the "bond hash") kept in the -"bond_hash" member of struct port. The hash table entry identifies a -bond slave. If no bond slave has yet been chosen for that hash table -entry, vswitchd chooses one arbitrarily. +selected based on the packet's source MAC and VLAN tag (see +choose_output_iface()). In particular, the source MAC and VLAN tag +are hashed into one of 256 values, and that value is looked up in a +hash table (the "bond hash") kept in the "bond_hash" member of struct +port. The hash table entry identifies a bond slave. If no bond slave +has yet been chosen for that hash table entry, vswitchd chooses one +arbitrarily. Every 10 seconds, vswitchd rebalances the bond slaves (see bond_rebalance_port()). To rebalance, vswitchd examines the |