diff --git a/xds/internal/balancer/ringhash/ring.go b/xds/internal/balancer/ringhash/ring.go
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+/*
+ *
+ * Copyright 2021 gRPC authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ */
+
+package ringhash
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"math"
+	"sort"
+	"strconv"
+
+	xxhash "github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2"
+	"google.golang.org/grpc/resolver"
+)
+
+// subConn is a placeholder struct needed by the ring. It will be moved to the
+// balancer file, and will add more fields (balancer.SubConn, connectivity state
+// and so on).
+type subConn struct {
+	addr string
+}
+
+type ring struct {
+	items []*ringEntry
+}
+
+type subConnWithWeight struct {
+	sc     *subConn
+	weight float64
+}
+
+type ringEntry struct {
+	idx  int
+	hash uint64
+	sc   *subConn
+}
+
+// newRing creates a ring from the subConns. The ring size is limited by the
+// passed in max/min.
+//
+// ring entries will be created for each subConn, and subConn with high weight
+// (specified by the address) may have multiple entries.
+//
+// For example, for subConns with weights {a:3, b:3, c:4}, a generated ring of
+// size 10 could be:
+// - {idx:0 hash:3689675255460411075  b}
+// - {idx:1 hash:4262906501694543955  c}
+// - {idx:2 hash:5712155492001633497  c}
+// - {idx:3 hash:8050519350657643659  b}
+// - {idx:4 hash:8723022065838381142  b}
+// - {idx:5 hash:11532782514799973195 a}
+// - {idx:6 hash:13157034721563383607 c}
+// - {idx:7 hash:14468677667651225770 c}
+// - {idx:8 hash:17336016884672388720 a}
+// - {idx:9 hash:18151002094784932496 a}
+//
+// To pick from a ring, a binary search will be done for the given target hash,
+// and first item with hash >= given hash will be returned.
+func newRing(subConns map[resolver.Address]*subConn, minRingSize, maxRingSize uint64) (*ring, error) {
+	// https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/blob/765c970f06a4c962961a0e03a467e165b276d50f/source/common/upstream/ring_hash_lb.cc#L114
+	normalizedWeights, minWeight, err := normalizeWeights(subConns)
+	if err != nil {
+		return nil, err
+	}
+	// Normalized weights for {3,3,4} is {0.3,0.3,0.4}.
+
+	// Scale up the size of the ring such that the least-weighted host gets a
+	// whole number of hashes on the ring.
+	//
+	// Note that size is limited by the input max/min.
+	scale := math.Min(math.Ceil(minWeight*float64(minRingSize))/minWeight, float64(maxRingSize))
+	ringSize := math.Ceil(scale)
+	items := make([]*ringEntry, 0, int(ringSize))
+
+	// For each entry, scale*weight nodes are generated in the ring.
+	//
+	// Not all of these are whole numbers. E.g. for weights {a:3,b:3,c:4}, if
+	// ring size is 7, scale is 6.66. The numbers of nodes will be
+	// {a,a,b,b,c,c,c}.
+	//
+	// A hash is generated for each item, and later the results will be sorted
+	// based on the hash.
+	var (
+		idx       int
+		targetIdx float64
+	)
+	for _, scw := range normalizedWeights {
+		targetIdx += scale * scw.weight
+		for float64(idx) < targetIdx {
+			h := xxhash.Sum64String(scw.sc.addr + strconv.Itoa(len(items)))
+			items = append(items, &ringEntry{idx: idx, hash: h, sc: scw.sc})
+			idx++
+		}
+	}
+
+	// Sort items based on hash, to prepare for binary search.
+	sort.Slice(items, func(i, j int) bool { return items[i].hash < items[j].hash })
+	for i, ii := range items {
+		ii.idx = i
+	}
+	return &ring{items: items}, nil
+}
+
+// normalizeWeights divides all the weights by the sum, so that the total weight
+// is 1.
+func normalizeWeights(subConns map[resolver.Address]*subConn) (_ []subConnWithWeight, min float64, _ error) {
+	if len(subConns) == 0 {
+		return nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("number of subconns is 0")
+	}
+	var weightSum uint32
+	for a := range subConns {
+		// The address weight was moved from attributes to the Metadata field.
+		// This is necessary (all the attributes need to be stripped) for the
+		// balancer to detect identical {address+weight} combination.
+		weightSum += a.Metadata.(uint32)
+	}
+	if weightSum == 0 {
+		return nil, 0, fmt.Errorf("total weight of all subconns is 0")
+	}
+	weightSumF := float64(weightSum)
+	ret := make([]subConnWithWeight, 0, len(subConns))
+	min = math.MaxFloat64
+	for a, sc := range subConns {
+		nw := float64(a.Metadata.(uint32)) / weightSumF
+		ret = append(ret, subConnWithWeight{sc: sc, weight: nw})
+		if nw < min {
+			min = nw
+		}
+	}
+	// Sort the addresses to return consistent results.
+	//
+	// Note: this might not be necessary, but this makes sure the ring is
+	// consistent as long as the addresses are the same, for example, in cases
+	// where an address is added and then removed, the RPCs will still pick the
+	// same old SubConn.
+	sort.Slice(ret, func(i, j int) bool { return ret[i].sc.addr < ret[j].sc.addr })
+	return ret, min, nil
+}
+
+// pick does a binary search. It returns the item with smallest index i that
+// r.items[i].hash >= h.
+func (r *ring) pick(h uint64) *ringEntry {
+	i := sort.Search(len(r.items), func(i int) bool { return r.items[i].hash >= h })
+	if i == len(r.items) {
+		// If not found, and h is greater than the largest hash, return the
+		// first item.
+		i = 0
+	}
+	return r.items[i]
+}
+
+// next returns the next entry.
+func (r *ring) next(e *ringEntry) *ringEntry {
+	return r.items[(e.idx+1)%len(r.items)]
+}
diff --git a/xds/internal/balancer/ringhash/ring_test.go b/xds/internal/balancer/ringhash/ring_test.go
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2d664e05bb2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/xds/internal/balancer/ringhash/ring_test.go
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+/*
+ *
+ * Copyright 2021 gRPC authors.
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ *
+ */
+
+package ringhash
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"math"
+	"testing"
+
+	xxhash "github.com/cespare/xxhash/v2"
+	"google.golang.org/grpc/resolver"
+)
+
+func testAddr(addr string, weight uint32) resolver.Address {
+	return resolver.Address{Addr: addr, Metadata: weight}
+}
+
+func TestRingNew(t *testing.T) {
+	testAddrs := []resolver.Address{
+		testAddr("a", 3),
+		testAddr("b", 3),
+		testAddr("c", 4),
+	}
+	var totalWeight float64 = 10
+	testSubConnMap := map[resolver.Address]*subConn{
+		testAddr("a", 3): {addr: "a"},
+		testAddr("b", 3): {addr: "b"},
+		testAddr("c", 4): {addr: "c"},
+	}
+	for _, min := range []uint64{3, 4, 6, 8} {
+		for _, max := range []uint64{20, 8} {
+			t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("size-min-%v-max-%v", min, max), func(t *testing.T) {
+				r, _ := newRing(testSubConnMap, min, max)
+				totalCount := len(r.items)
+				if totalCount < int(min) || totalCount > int(max) {
+					t.Fatalf("unexpect size %v, want min %v, max %v", totalCount, min, max)
+				}
+				for _, a := range testAddrs {
+					var count int
+					for _, ii := range r.items {
+						if ii.sc.addr == a.Addr {
+							count++
+						}
+					}
+					got := float64(count) / float64(totalCount)
+					want := float64(a.Metadata.(uint32)) / totalWeight
+					if !equalApproximately(got, want) {
+						t.Fatalf("unexpected item weight in ring: %v != %v", got, want)
+					}
+				}
+			})
+		}
+	}
+}
+
+func equalApproximately(x, y float64) bool {
+	delta := math.Abs(x - y)
+	mean := math.Abs(x+y) / 2.0
+	return delta/mean < 0.25
+}
+
+func TestRingPick(t *testing.T) {
+	r, _ := newRing(map[resolver.Address]*subConn{
+		{Addr: "a", Metadata: uint32(3)}: {addr: "a"},
+		{Addr: "b", Metadata: uint32(3)}: {addr: "b"},
+		{Addr: "c", Metadata: uint32(4)}: {addr: "c"},
+	}, 10, 20)
+	for _, h := range []uint64{xxhash.Sum64String("1"), xxhash.Sum64String("2"), xxhash.Sum64String("3"), xxhash.Sum64String("4")} {
+		t.Run(fmt.Sprintf("picking-hash-%v", h), func(t *testing.T) {
+			e := r.pick(h)
+			var low uint64
+			if e.idx > 0 {
+				low = r.items[e.idx-1].hash
+			}
+			high := e.hash
+			// h should be in [low, high).
+			if h < low || h >= high {
+				t.Fatalf("unexpected item picked, hash: %v, low: %v, high: %v", h, low, high)
+			}
+		})
+	}
+}
+
+func TestRingNext(t *testing.T) {
+	r, _ := newRing(map[resolver.Address]*subConn{
+		{Addr: "a", Metadata: uint32(3)}: {addr: "a"},
+		{Addr: "b", Metadata: uint32(3)}: {addr: "b"},
+		{Addr: "c", Metadata: uint32(4)}: {addr: "c"},
+	}, 10, 20)
+
+	for _, e := range r.items {
+		ne := r.next(e)
+		if ne.idx != (e.idx+1)%len(r.items) {
+			t.Fatalf("next(%+v) returned unexpected %+v", e, ne)
+		}
+	}
+}