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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: RPS and forwarding
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 09:38:54 +0200
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Le lundi 26 avril 2010 =C3=A0 15:30 +0800, Herbert Xu a =C3=A9crit :
> On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 09:25:16AM +0200, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> >
> > RFS is already working like that, if RPS is not used in conjonction=
=2E
> >=20
> > Forwarded traffic will see a non tagged rfs flow entry, so this skb=
 will
> > be processed by this cpu, not a remote one.
> >=20
> > Currently, only an application can set a RFS flow entry.
>=20
> I was referring to the case when a forwarded flow gets hashed to
> the same index as a local flow.

Ah OK, with same rxhash I guess ?

(we could store rxhash next to cpu in struct rps_dev_flow, or 16bit par=
t
of it in the existing padding)