From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] rfs: Receive Flow Steering Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:19:47 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100419.141947.129754682.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20100419.130905.210660275.davem@davemloft.net> <20100419.132318.192086187.davem@davemloft.net> <1271709121.3845.94.camel@edumazet-laptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: therbert@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:58431 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752063Ab0DSVTp (ORCPT ); Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:19:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1271709121.3845.94.camel@edumazet-laptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 22:32:01 +0200 > Hmm, this was not a formal patch, just an information. > > Problem is if hardware provides rxhash, will it be "consistent" too ? Yes, it is an issue. I am not aware of whether the Toeplitz hash computed by cards is impervious to the order of the input bits of not, probably it is. I was thinking also about how we could compute rxhash in the loopback driver :-)