From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make simple TX hash little endian safe. Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:17:13 +0200 Message-ID: <20080721151713.GB29543@basil.nowhere.org> References: <1216630088-10328-1-git-send-email-andi@firstfloor.org> <20080721123215.GA4376@ff.dom.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andi Kleen , davem@davemloft.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: Jarek Poplawski Return-path: Received: from smtp-out03.alice-dsl.net ([88.44.63.5]:26141 "EHLO smtp-out03.alice-dsl.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756750AbYGUPSE (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:18:04 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080721123215.GA4376@ff.dom.local> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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 > > > > 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