Commit 2cd1881b authored by Gal Pressman's avatar Gal Pressman Committed by David S. Miller

bonding: Update layer2 and layer2+3 hash formula documentation

When using layer2 or layer2+3 hash, only the 5th byte of the MAC
addresses is used.
Signed-off-by: default avatarGal Pressman <gal@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 2105f700
......@@ -894,7 +894,7 @@ xmit_hash_policy
Uses XOR of hardware MAC addresses and packet type ID
field to generate the hash. The formula is
hash = source MAC XOR destination MAC XOR packet type ID
hash = source MAC[5] XOR destination MAC[5] XOR packet type ID
slave number = hash modulo slave count
This algorithm will place all traffic to a particular
......@@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ xmit_hash_policy
Uses XOR of hardware MAC addresses and IP addresses to
generate the hash. The formula is
hash = source MAC XOR destination MAC XOR packet type ID
hash = source MAC[5] XOR destination MAC[5] XOR packet type ID
hash = hash XOR source IP XOR destination IP
hash = hash XOR (hash RSHIFT 16)
hash = hash XOR (hash RSHIFT 8)
......
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