Re: [PATCH] ipv6: Enable RFS sk_rxhash tracking for ipv6 sockets (v2)

[David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>]

From: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Date: Wed,  6 Apr 2011 15:37:27 -0400

> properly record sk_rxhash in ipv6 sockets (v2)
> 
> Noticed while working on another project that flows to sockets which I had open
> on a test systems weren't getting steered properly when I had RFS enabled.
> Looking more closely I found that:
> 
> 1) The affected sockets were all ipv6
> 2) They weren't getting steered because sk->sk_rxhash was never set from the
> incomming skbs on that socket.
> 
> This was occuring because there are several points in the IPv4 tcp and udp code
> which save the rxhash value when a new connection is established.  Those calls
> to sock_rps_save_rxhash were never added to the corresponding ipv6 code paths.
> This patch adds those calls.  Tested by myself to properly enable RFS
> functionalty on ipv6.
> 
> Change notes:
> v2:
> 	Filtered UDP to only arm RFS on bound sockets (Eric Dumazet)
> 
> Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>

Ok, I've decided to apply this to net-2.6

The current behavior even surprised me, I was pretty sure we had added
the hooks to both ipv4 and ipv6.

Thanks a lot Neil.