On 29/10/2019 15:50, 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

Aso, let's use a flow_dissector_key which defines FLOW_DISSECTOR_KEY_ICMP,

Also ?

so we can balance pings encapsulated in a tunnel when using mode encap3+4:

    # ping -q 192.168.1.2 -c1
    0: IP 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2: GREv0, length 102: IP 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.2: ICMP echo request, id 585, seq 1, length 64
    0: IP 192.168.0.2 > 192.168.0.1: GREv0, length 102: IP 192.168.1.2 > 192.168.1.1: ICMP echo reply, id 585, seq 1, length 64
    # ping -q 192.168.1.2 -c1
    1: IP 192.168.0.1 > 192.168.0.2: GREv0, length 102: IP 192.168.1.1 > 192.168.1.2: ICMP echo request, id 586, seq 1, length 64
    1: IP 192.168.0.2 > 192.168.0.1: GREv0, length 102: IP 192.168.1.2 > 192.168.1.1: ICMP echo reply, id 586, seq 1, length 64

Signed-off-by: Matteo Croce <redacted>
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 drivers/net/bonding/bond_main.c | 77 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 70 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

Hi Matteo,
Wouldn't it be more useful and simpler to use some field to choose the slave (override the hash
completely) in a deterministic way from user-space ?
For example the mark can be interpreted as a slave id in the bonding (should be
optional, to avoid breaking existing setups). ping already supports -m and
anything else can set it, this way it can be used to do monitoring for a specific
slave with any protocol and would be a much simpler change.
User-space can then implement any logic for the monitoring case and as a minor bonus
can monitor the slaves in parallel. And the opposite as well - if people don't want
these balanced for some reason, they wouldn't enable it.

Or maybe I've misunderstood why this change is needed. :)
It would actually be nice to include the use-case which brought this on
in the commit message.

Cheers,
 Nik