ipvs: add sync_persist_mode flag
Add sync_persist_mode flag to reduce sync traffic
by syncing only persistent templates.
Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@ssi.bg>
Tested-by: Aleksey Chudov <aleksey.chudov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
index 9573d0c..7a3c047 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ipvs-sysctl.txt
@@ -181,6 +181,19 @@
always be the same as the original route so it is an optimisation
to disable snat_reroute and avoid the recalculation.
+sync_persist_mode - INTEGER
+ default 0
+
+ Controls the synchronisation of connections when using persistence
+
+ 0: All types of connections are synchronised
+ 1: Attempt to reduce the synchronisation traffic depending on
+ the connection type. For persistent services avoid synchronisation
+ for normal connections, do it only for persistence templates.
+ In such case, for TCP and SCTP it may need enabling sloppy_tcp and
+ sloppy_sctp flags on backup servers. For non-persistent services
+ such optimization is not applied, mode 0 is assumed.
+
sync_version - INTEGER
default 1