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Mubashir Adnan Qureshi says: ==================== net: Add PLB functionality to TCP This patch series adds PLB (Protective Load Balancing) to TCP and hooks it up to DCTCP. PLB is disabled by default and can be enabled using relevant sysctls and support from underlying CC. PLB (Protective Load Balancing) is a host based mechanism for load balancing across switch links. It leverages congestion signals(e.g. ECN) from transport layer to randomly change the path of the connection experiencing congestion. PLB changes the path of the connection by changing the outgoing IPv6 flow label for IPv6 connections (implemented in Linux by calling sk_rethink_txhash()). Because of this implementation mechanism, PLB can currently only work for IPv6 traffic. For more information, see the SIGCOMM 2022 paper: https://doi.org/10.1145/3544216.3544226 ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.