From: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 15:24:20 -0700
> From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> > > In commit b73c3d0e4f0e ("net: Save TX flow hash in sock and set in skbuf > on xmit"), Tom provided a l4 hash to most outgoing TCP packets. > > We'd like to provide one as well for SYNACK packets, so that all packets > of a given flow share same txhash, to later enable bonding driver to > also use skb->hash to perform slave selection. > > Note that a SYNACK retransmit shuffles the tx hash, as Tom did > in commit 265f94ff54d62 ("net: Recompute sk_txhash on negative routing > advice") for established sockets. > > This has nice effect making TCP flows resilient to some kind of black > holes, even at connection establish phase. > > Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html