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Re: [lvs-users] DR-mode realserver selection via consistent hashing on r

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Subject: Re: [lvs-users] DR-mode realserver selection via consistent hashing on request URL?
From: Josh Adams <josh@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 14:37:37 -0800
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 13:34, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> -dh maps on urls, not IPs (it was developed for squids).
>
> The urls are divided evenly over the realservers. Otherwise
> I don't know the answer to your question.

Ok, thanks for the clarification.  I expected dh to be based on ip
because of what I saw in the source in my kernel's ip_vs_dh.c
(linux-2.6.27.y/net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_dh.c):

    18  /*
    19   * The dh algorithm is to select server by the hash key of
destination IP
    20   * address. The pseudo code is as follows:
    21   *
    22   *       n <- servernode[dest_ip];
    23   *       if (n is dead) OR
    24   *          (n is overloaded) OR (n.weight <= 0) then
    25   *                 return NULL;
    26   *
    27   *       return n;
    28   *
    29   * Notes that servernode is a 256-bucket hash table that maps the hash
    30   * index derived from packet destination IP address to the
current server
    31   * array. If the dh scheduler is used in cache cluster, it is good to
    32   * combine it with cache_bypass feature. When the statically assigned
    33   * server is dead or overloaded, the load balancer can bypass the cache
    34   * server and send requests to the original server directly.
    35   *
    36   */

Has this been changed to url-based hashing in a later version of
ip_vs_dh.c or am I just looking in the wrong place (ie, is there
another dh scheduler somewhere else)?  The consistent hashing-like
redistribution of down realservers' objects question still applies,
but I guess I can find that out by reading the source of the url-based
dh scheduler.

Thanks,
Josh

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