From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Victor Julien Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] packet: Add fanout support. Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:15:35 +0200 Message-ID: <4E1346B7.4000105@inliniac.net> References: <20110704.212014.236340473910292460.davem@davemloft.net> <1309846875.2720.43.camel@edumazet-laptop> <4E12B5A6.2020802@inliniac.net> <1309849214.2720.45.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1309882577.2271.23.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> <4E133A09.8030907@inliniac.net> <1309882999.2271.25.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: "Loke, Chetan" , David Miller , netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Eric Dumazet Return-path: Received: from static-27.netfusion.at ([83.215.238.27]:34393 "EHLO tulpe.vuurmuur.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751931Ab1GERQF (ORCPT ); Tue, 5 Jul 2011 13:16:05 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1309882999.2271.25.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/05/2011 06:23 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: > Le mardi 05 juillet 2011 =C3=A0 18:21 +0200, Victor Julien a =C3=A9cr= it : >> On 07/05/2011 06:16 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote: >>> Remember, goal is that _all_ packets of a given flow end in same qu= eue. >>> >> >> What about a hashing scheme based on just the ip addresses? Would ma= ke >> rxhash useless for this purpose, but would be a lot simpler overall = maybe... >> >=20 > What about loads where a single IP address is used ? How would that be a problem? > I wonder what's the problem, since David added a defrag unit ;) No problem, I just suggested it as Chetan Loke brought up the hashing suggestion. David's solution would work fine for me. --=20 --------------------------------------------- Victor Julien http://www.inliniac.net/ PGP: http://www.inliniac.net/victorjulien.asc ---------------------------------------------