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From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon-pdR9zngts4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/5] i40e: Use constant random hash keys
Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 08:49:40 +0100
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Hi Helin,

The title is a bit surprising:
- it should be about RSS
- a constant cannot be really random ;)

2014-10-21 11:14, Helin Zhang:
> To be simpler, and remove the race condition, it uses prepared
> constant random hash keys to replace runtime generating the hash
> keys.

Could you explain what is the role of rss_key_default?

Thanks
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Thomas