Bug 1849681 - [RFE] backport latest upstream changes regarding balance-tcp
Summary: [RFE] backport latest upstream changes regarding balance-tcp
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Status: CLOSED NEXTRELEASE
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openvswitch2.11
Version: FDP 20.E
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Assignee: Open vSwitch development team
QA Contact: ovs-qe
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2020-06-22 13:56 UTC by Federico Iezzi
Modified: 2020-10-22 13:39 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2020-10-22 13:39:45 UTC
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Github openvswitch/ovs/commit/9df6506 0 None None None 2020-09-01 14:13:51 UTC

Description Federico Iezzi 2020-06-22 13:56:28 UTC
Description of problem:
Balance-TCP has been over the years affected by a number of issues. Recently (well, today actually) the OVS's community with our help has merged [1][2] a massive revision of named hashing that solves the lack of scalability (resulting in turn of bad performance) removing the packet recirculation.

Currently, active-backup and balance-slb are the two supported hashing mechanism. The only sort of active-active hash is balance-slb which functionally represents a L2 XOR with a number of caveats (namely multicast and broadcast traffic not distributed) and also designed to work without any switch cooperation.

An operator should have the option to choose a smarter hashing to better distribute the traffic across the links of a LAG. Balance-tcp provides this and the latest upstream change makes it finally a compelling alternative. See performance numbers in [1]

We should backport such a change in the stable FDP.

[1] https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2020-June/371594.html
[2] https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/9df6506

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
any FDP to date


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