From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: bhutchings@solarflare.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, alexander.h.duyck@intel.com,
santwona.behera@sun.com, jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 2/2] niu: Recognise original ethtool class code for AH/ESP flow hashing
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 13:29:17 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110411.132917.229759117.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1302306555.2871.59.camel@bwh-desktop>
From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:49:15 +0100
> When the RX network flow classification interface was originally
> defined for reporting and controlling of flow hashing, AH and ESP were
> not given distinct flow class codes (apparently because the Sun
> Neptune hardware treats them very similarly).
>
> For flow steering, they must be distinguished, so new and separate
> flow class codes were added for AH and ESP. But for backward-
> compatibility, flow hash operations should continue to support the
> original class codes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Applied, thanks Ben.
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2011-04-08 23:49 [PATCH net-next-2.6 2/2] niu: Recognise original ethtool class code for AH/ESP flow hashing Ben Hutchings
2011-04-11 20:29 ` David Miller [this message]
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