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From: Fabian Hugelshofer <hugelshofer2006@gmx.ch>
Subject: Re: Conntrack Events Performance - Multipart Messages?
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:38:30 +0100
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Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Fabian Hugelshofer wrote:
>> Why do you think the padding causes problems? For hashing e.g. src/dst 
>> .u3 and .u are referenced independently of potential padding. Where 
>> does access to the padding data occur?
> 
> The hash function hashes the entire tuple in one go.
> The padding needs to have deterministic content for
> that.

Ok, I see. This has been changed since 2.6.24. Makes sense...