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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dm@chelsio.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] cxgb4: set skb->rxhash
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:47:41 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100427.154741.172557759.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BD76955.1030104@chelsio.com>

From: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@chelsio.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:46:45 -0700

> David Miller wrote:
>> From: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@chelsio.com>
>> Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 15:20:25 -0700
>> 
>>> Implement the ->set_flags ethtool method to control NETIF_F_RXHASH and
>>> set skb->rxhash to the HW calculated hash accordingly.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@chelsio.com>
>> Does the CXGB4 hash the ports for non-TCP packets?
>> If not, you will need to check the packet type (preferrably using
>> RX descriptor information rather than actually parsing the packet)
>> and only record the ->rxhash for TCP packets.
>> 
> 
> It does, optionally.  Someday I need to implement ->set_rxnfc to
> expose the few available options but it's on by default.

Great, if you could respin this patch and ditch the ntohl() as Eric
suggested I'll apply it.

Thanks!

      reply	other threads:[~2010-04-27 22:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-27 22:20 [PATCH net-next] cxgb4: set skb->rxhash Dimitris Michailidis
2010-04-27 22:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-04-27 22:39   ` Dimitris Michailidis
2010-04-27 22:44   ` David Miller
2010-04-27 22:43 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-27 22:45   ` David Miller
2010-04-27 22:43 ` David Miller
2010-04-27 22:46   ` Dimitris Michailidis
2010-04-27 22:47     ` David Miller [this message]

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