From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: add support for receive hashing Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:56:44 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20100426.105644.71114735.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1272302434.19143.76.camel@edumazet-laptop> <1272304072.2376.10.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: therbert@google.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: bhutchings@solarflare.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:49895 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751128Ab0DZR4i (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Apr 2010 13:56:38 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1272304072.2376.10.camel@achroite.uk.solarflarecom.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ben Hutchings Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:47:52 +0100 > Unfortunately the widely-implemented Toeplitz hash functions are defined > only for TCP/IPv4, TCP/IPv6, IPv4 and IPv6. What a complete and utter waste all of this is then. Defining the hash as TCP only is about as stupid as making hw checksum offload be TCP only. Really, I'm completely stunned.