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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RPS and forwarding
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 07:15:05 +0200
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Le dimanche 25 avril 2010 =C3=A0 21:44 -0700, Tom Herbert a =C3=A9crit =
:
> > Apart from not using RPS on routers, I suppose people doing
> > forwarding will simply have to maintain a constant RPS table,
> > and forgo its local redirection capabilities.
> >
>=20
> I think you'd want RPS on router (steering packets using hash and CPU
> mask).  Most of your concerns are about RFS (steering by flows), whic=
h
> is probably more appropriate for a server.

We could probably rename RFS parts to RFS to avoid confusion ?