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Le mardi 20 avril 2010 =C3=A0 07:38 +0800, Changli Gao a =C3=A9crit :

> Does this problem has relationship with your patch? No. If the rxhash
> isn't provided by hardware, we can get more throughput from you patch=
,
> and on the other side, we don't lose anything but potential more hash
> collision.
>=20

I am not sure what you call hash collision. There is no hash chain here=
=2E

This 32bit hash is a jhash one, and we only need 1 to 12 bits in it, I
am pretty sure its OK.