Sticky Load-balance

keep the number of buckets in the load-balanced fixed. If a
path goes dwon fill its buckets with those from the next
available up path.

Change-Id: I15603ccb899fa9b77556b898c99136379cf32eae
Signed-off-by: Neale Ranns <nranns@cisco.com>

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/vnet/dpo/load_balance.h b/src/vnet/dpo/load_balance.h
index dd9589f9ee8..3f0d5ac2acb 100644
--- a/src/vnet/dpo/load_balance.h
+++ b/src/vnet/dpo/load_balance.h
@@ -77,6 +77,28 @@ typedef struct load_balance_path_t_ {
 } load_balance_path_t;
 
 /**
+ * Flags controlling load-balance creation and modification
+ */
+typedef enum load_balance_attr_t_ {
+    LOAD_BALANCE_ATTR_USES_MAP = 0,
+    LOAD_BALANCE_ATTR_STICKY = 1,
+} load_balance_attr_t;
+
+#define LOAD_BALANCE_ATTR_NAMES  {                  \
+    [LOAD_BALANCE_ATTR_USES_MAP] = "uses-map",      \
+    [LOAD_BALANCE_ATTR_STICKY] = "sticky",          \
+}
+
+#define FOR_EACH_LOAD_BALANCE_ATTR(_attr)                       \
+    for (_attr = 0; _attr <= LOAD_BALANCE_ATTR_STICKY; _attr++)
+
+typedef enum load_balance_flags_t_ {
+    LOAD_BALANCE_FLAG_NONE = 0,
+    LOAD_BALANCE_FLAG_USES_MAP = (1 << 0),
+    LOAD_BALANCE_FLAG_STICKY = (1 << 1),
+} __attribute__((packed)) load_balance_flags_t;
+
+/**
  * The FIB DPO provieds;
  *  - load-balancing over the next DPOs in the chain/graph
  *  - per-route counters
@@ -106,6 +128,11 @@ typedef struct load_balance_t_ {
     dpo_proto_t lb_proto;
 
     /**
+     * Flags concenring the LB's creation and modification
+     */
+    load_balance_flags_t lb_flags;
+
+    /**
      * Flags from the load-balance's associated fib_entry_t
      */
     fib_entry_flag_t lb_fib_entry_flags;
@@ -158,14 +185,6 @@ typedef enum load_balance_format_flags_t_ {
     LOAD_BALANCE_FORMAT_DETAIL = (1 << 0),
 } load_balance_format_flags_t;
 
-/**
- * Flags controlling load-balance creation and modification
- */
-typedef enum load_balance_flags_t_ {
-    LOAD_BALANCE_FLAG_NONE = 0,
-    LOAD_BALANCE_FLAG_USES_MAP = (1 << 0),
-} load_balance_flags_t;
-
 extern index_t load_balance_create(u32 num_buckets,
 				   dpo_proto_t lb_proto,
 				   flow_hash_config_t fhc);