Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:14:05 -0700 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd@gmail.com> To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" <bz@freebsd.org> Cc: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>, "George V. Neville-Neil" <gnn@freebsd.org>, "src-committers@freebsd.org" <src-committers@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" <svn-src-head@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: svn commit: r297225 - in head/sys: net netinet netinet6 Message-ID: <CAJ-VmonUCcwZD=kXsULgop4Xfj0=G0PEWTfny6DAO0x%2BZ9aT%2Bw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1603252049180.92377@ai.fobar.qr> References: <201603240754.u2O7suvM006925@repo.freebsd.org> <20160324203117.GY2616@FreeBSD.org> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1603252049180.92377@ai.fobar.qr>
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[snip] The thing flowtable gave you is the ability to set a per connection (L4 match) to be able to set a destination MAC to forward to - so you COULD build a complete load balancer in kernel. Gleb stripped out the L4 bits to simplify it for netflix, which removed that functionality. I'd love to see it re-added back in and a userland API to let us do that - then yes, we can build kernel load balancers for this stuff. -a
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