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| author | Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com> | 2022-04-06 16:54:20 +0300 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2022-04-08 12:13:56 +0100 |
| commit | 2cd1881b9821be68d1eb748c96311258b16af225 (patch) | |
| tree | 7f711e244ddcc64a8104b499baad7b9cb23671ee | |
| parent | 2105f700b53c24aa48b65c15652acc386044d26a (diff) | |
bonding: Update layer2 and layer2+3 hash formula documentation
When using layer2 or layer2+3 hash, only the 5th byte of the MAC
addresses is used.
Signed-off-by: Gal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/networking/bonding.rst | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst b/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst index 525e6842dd33..43be3782e5df 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/bonding.rst @@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ xmit_hash_policy Uses XOR of hardware MAC addresses and packet type ID field to generate the hash. The formula is - hash = source MAC XOR destination MAC XOR packet type ID + hash = source MAC[5] XOR destination MAC[5] XOR packet type ID slave number = hash modulo slave count This algorithm will place all traffic to a particular @@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ xmit_hash_policy Uses XOR of hardware MAC addresses and IP addresses to generate the hash. The formula is - hash = source MAC XOR destination MAC XOR packet type ID + hash = source MAC[5] XOR destination MAC[5] XOR packet type ID hash = hash XOR source IP XOR destination IP hash = hash XOR (hash RSHIFT 16) hash = hash XOR (hash RSHIFT 8) |