From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make simple TX hash little endian safe.
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:17:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080721151713.GB29543@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080721123215.GA4376@ff.dom.local>
On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 12:32:15PM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On 21-07-2008 10:48, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > From: Andi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>
> >
> > Currently it will not use the lower
> > bits at all on big endian system, mapping e.g. all connections to a single
> > queue on a local network which only differs in the low bits.
>
> It seems ports could be treated similarly, btw?
Ports should be normally better distributed because they tend
to be more uniform than IP addresses due to the way they are
generated, so there will hopefully not be too many endian artifacts.
But yes at least least folding them too might be a good idea.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-07-21 15:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-07-21 8:48 [PATCH] Make simple TX hash little endian safe Andi Kleen
2008-07-21 8:48 ` [PATCH] Add a statistics counter for tx hash miss Andi Kleen
2008-07-21 16:33 ` David Miller
2008-07-21 16:44 ` Andi Kleen
2008-07-21 16:51 ` David Miller
2008-07-21 12:32 ` [PATCH] Make simple TX hash little endian safe Jarek Poplawski
2008-07-21 15:17 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-07-21 16:44 ` David Miller
2008-07-21 17:20 ` Andi Kleen
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