From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/3] Simplified 16 bit Toeplitz hash algorithm Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:54:21 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <20110103.115421.232753837.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20110103.110244.183045594.davem@davemloft.net> <1294083039.3167.184.camel@localhost> <4D2228E0.9030908@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bhutchings@solarflare.com, therbert@google.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: alexander.h.duyck@intel.com Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:60349 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753621Ab1ACTxu (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jan 2011 14:53:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4D2228E0.9030908@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Alexander Duyck Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2011 11:52:00 -0800 > Since the approach is based on Toeplitz it can be applied to all > hardware capable of generating a Toeplitz based hash and as a result > it would likely also work in a much more vendor neutral kind of way > than Flow Director currently does. Immediately this excludes NIU, for one, since it does not use Topelitz.