From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 0/2] patchset: Support for configurable RSS hash key Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:12:53 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20140328.171253.1863144825039621848.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20140327.145336.1708122219432567015.davem@davemloft.net> <1395970770.2898.54.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: VenkatKumar.Duvvuru@Emulex.Com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: ben@decadent.org.uk Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:40971 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753195AbaC1VM4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:12:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1395970770.2898.54.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Ben Hutchings Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 01:39:30 +0000 > By grouping the key and hash together, with some reserved fields (which > the setter should initially require to be equal to zero), it should be > possible to fill in support for numbered RSS contexts later without yet > another new structure and operations. If that is the case, why don't we add from the start a "u32 rss_context;" field that has to be set to zero for now?