From: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] rps: Inspect GRE encapsulated packets to get flow hash
Date: Thu, 19 May 2011 13:06:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BANLkTi=Q3N+_OEp4sLJu7wz5OW6gOCkciA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110519.153916.2250094502232694032.davem@davemloft.net>
> Unless you look inside of the tunnel, you may not have any entropy
> at all for packet steering and that seems to be what Tom is trying
> to attack here.
>
Entropy for RPS, but flow identifier for RFS. Also, this is not just
a SW problem, RSS doesn't seem to do anything creative with GRE
packets... I'm hoping we'll be able get support in NICs to do this
same functionality.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-19 20:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-19 15:39 [PATCH 4/4] rps: Inspect GRE encapsulated packets to get flow hash Tom Herbert
2011-05-19 16:16 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-05-19 19:39 ` David Miller
2011-05-19 20:06 ` Tom Herbert [this message]
2011-05-19 19:56 ` Tom Herbert
2011-05-19 20:17 ` Eric Dumazet
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