Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 4/4] bonding: balance ICMP echoes in layer3+4 mode

From: Simon Horman <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2019 12:01:32 +0200

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 10:09:48PM +0200, Matteo Croce wrote:
> The bonding uses the L4 ports to balance flows between slaves.
> As the ICMP protocol has no ports, those packets are sent all to the
> same device:
> 
>     # tcpdump -qltnni veth0 ip |sed 's/^/0: /' &
>     # tcpdump -qltnni veth1 ip |sed 's/^/1: /' &
>     # ping -qc1 192.168.0.2
>     1: IP 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2: ICMP echo request, id 315, seq 1, length 64
>     1: IP 192.168.0.2 > 192.168.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 315, seq 1, length 64
>     # ping -qc1 192.168.0.2
>     1: IP 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2: ICMP echo request, id 316, seq 1, length 64
>     1: IP 192.168.0.2 > 192.168.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 316, seq 1, length 64
>     # ping -qc1 192.168.0.2
>     1: IP 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2: ICMP echo request, id 317, seq 1, length 64
>     1: IP 192.168.0.2 > 192.168.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 317, seq 1, length 64
> 
> But some ICMP packets have an Identifier field which is
> used to match packets within sessions, let's use this value in the hash
> function to balance these packets between bond slaves:
> 
>     # ping -qc1 192.168.0.2
>     0: IP 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2: ICMP echo request, id 303, seq 1, length 64
>     0: IP 192.168.0.2 > 192.168.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 303, seq 1, length 64
>     # ping -qc1 192.168.0.2
>     1: IP 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2: ICMP echo request, id 304, seq 1, length 64
>     1: IP 192.168.0.2 > 192.168.0.1: ICMP echo reply, id 304, seq 1, length 64
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <[email-masked]>

I see where this patch is going but it is unclear to me what problem it is
solving. I would expect ICMP traffic to be low volume and thus able to be
handled by a single lower-device of a bond.

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