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From: Rick Jones <rick.jones2@hp.com>
To: Christophe Ngo Van Duc <cngovanduc@gmail.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: bnx2/5709: Strange interrupts spread
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:56:24 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C326318.8050006@hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTillLjztYe7mmyO_LoTXavDtTd2nsaAsd22z0dG-@mail.gmail.com>

Christophe Ngo Van Duc wrote:
> Is it a requirement that the interface has an IP address for the TX
> and RX hash to work?

At the risk of typing into Michael's keyboard, chances are, what the NIC does is 
follow Microsoft's specs for RSS, which as far as I can tell, discusses hashing 
either just on the IP addresses (v4 or v6) or the IP addresses and TCP port 
numbers, so unless Broadcom has an enhancement/extension, if the traffic 
arriving is not TCP/IP and not multiple connections, it probably does not get 
spread-out.

rick jones

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-05 22:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-02 20:33 bnx2/5709: Strange interrupts spread Christophe Ngo Van Duc
2010-07-02 20:58 ` Michael Chan
2010-07-02 22:12   ` Christophe Ngo Van Duc
2010-07-04 20:36     ` Christophe Ngo Van Duc
2010-07-05 22:56       ` Rick Jones [this message]
2010-07-08 20:06         ` Christophe Ngo Van Duc
2010-07-19 15:55 ` Christophe Ngo Van Duc
2010-07-19 18:47   ` Michael Chan
2010-07-19 19:47     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-07-19 20:29       ` Michael Chan

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