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Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 0/2] patchset: Support for configurable RSS
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Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 15:43:00 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Venkata Duvvuru <VenkatKumar.Duvvuru@Emulex.Com>
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2014 12:02:11 +0000

> It went through many changes later with the intention of combining
> both indirection and hash key setting into one option as both are
> related to rss configuration.

Combining these two things makes the buffer management at the end of
the defined data type more complex.

Furthermore, we generally steer far away from having multiple ways
to do the same exact thing.