On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 09:29:05PM -0500, Seth Call wrote: > Hi there, > > Source hashing scheduling makes a lot of sense for a project we are > starting. > > One use-case gives us concern though; it's possible a large number of > clients sending UDP streams from the same source IP could occur (say a big > site behind a NAT), causing an unbalanced load to occur on one real server. > > The only thing that occurs to me is if source hashing also considered the > source port (and assuming the clients were good about picking from a decent > range of source ports), to help add granularity to the load-balancing > algorithm. > > What do you all think? Would adding source port to sh (or making a 9th > scheduling mechanism) be a good approach to the problem?
It sounds like a reasonable approach to me assuming that source ip/port based scheduling makes sense for your expected traffic. I think it would need to be a new scheduler as it would break assumptions made by sh - that is that scheduling is per-host not per-connection. _______________________________________________ Please read the documentation before posting - it's available at: http://www.linuxvirtualserver.org/ LinuxVirtualServer.org mailing list - [email protected] Send requests to [email protected] or go to http://lists.graemef.net/mailman/listinfo/lvs-users
