From owner-svn-src-all@freebsd.org Fri Mar 25 22:14:06 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42851ADD3D6; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 22:14:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-ig0-x22e.google.com (mail-ig0-x22e.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::22e]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 08F351712; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 22:14:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from adrian.chadd@gmail.com) Received: by mail-ig0-x22e.google.com with SMTP id nk17so19655507igb.1; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:14:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc; bh=9J5tt5dECWrAb4xH5vU1H1gMajZ8nAiAGRmcVgByKdo=; b=u9XkhCkjkGpOrR6TZAxnLZfOvVolXnNoztGosZULH68FC5zGdInG41pk92iH1vAicS 89ZYhaVozMMglMOJ/pNx30AM3ODnqsR6lU35H2QZDvQ9JLXUMuCP0WxuDnEsgvrlZjvN 6Iz2ai6JXTNTCOrs/GFZQ4UqIxBd8C1zLL7kKCwe4mKFlN0WMrr1DbvMQjfkgJWpKJzC 60T5W8RwwFNcyvCMEUSAdsCLeccAumjDj1VdMvbA3KwyLuEW698vmGvrxdVqkUcdOI6r 7ws9lKtXsOBMq5nv1G19SlRWiRMpSqsxW34bnUP5xCHsTJ0YEwHsebTN7b0dVHynw1U+ rihw== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20130820; h=x-gm-message-state:mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date :message-id:subject:from:to:cc; bh=9J5tt5dECWrAb4xH5vU1H1gMajZ8nAiAGRmcVgByKdo=; b=feuHd8HPvVKwAAuWOYmtK2gN4S4DnldmbgFADy8uz+GT/11PjgnpHMRbFSQHEaB3Qo e8f6+S3a7JbRsKYGKL4V6moH7okTWWBlYqIgpCQX2EmFD+4M7+K3FriUN+jvg5WxhkKs WUMrgCWE0ZLpaviR8DjfBVP46NZ+fuAm34Xp/0CEqBsmIz4GUZgqjxfFYl//7/uMeSbm hSmv2NZBQ4i1r93Ve6gBKsnZ/+3vqp+1cKuNRPE7xrAWroYWRFxYrim4byxe6gDAN8FR G4BddF5iDBMfGjd0CwaL4UQv8m8SUFAjDGIGRrlX5ajfDXN3IdfCqoDV+b0naR38Rs4r jE7Q== X-Gm-Message-State: AD7BkJIxCNRViHjuhfXdsSenGhvOKGyBwHa1qR7JE1eMFwEBXU9cghRZa7mYcEUHTEgW/hZ8I7twiJPIhd+Gqw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.50.234 with SMTP id f10mr677658igo.37.1458944045317; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:14:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.36.14.19 with HTTP; Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:14:05 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <201603240754.u2O7suvM006925@repo.freebsd.org> <20160324203117.GY2616@FreeBSD.org> Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 15:14:05 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: svn commit: r297225 - in head/sys: net netinet netinet6 From: Adrian Chadd To: "Bjoern A. Zeeb" Cc: Gleb Smirnoff , "George V. Neville-Neil" , "src-committers@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-all@freebsd.org" , "svn-src-head@freebsd.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2016 22:14:06 -0000 [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