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From: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] rfs: Receive Flow Steering
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 08:04:34 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <t2y65634d661004200804r15427f19k9d58862f05df94aa@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1271743164.3845.128.camel@edumazet-laptop>

On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 10:59 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le mardi 20 avril 2010 à 07:38 +0800, Changli Gao a écrit :
>
>> Does this problem has relationship with your patch? No. If the rxhash
>> isn't provided by hardware, we can get more throughput from you patch,
>> and on the other side, we don't lose anything but potential more hash
>> collision.
>>
>
> I am not sure what you call hash collision. There is no hash chain here.
>
> This 32bit hash is a jhash one, and we only need 1 to 12 bits in it, I
> am pretty sure its OK.
>
Maybe for the purposes of RPS, but hash collisions could definitely be
an issue in RFS.  If two active connections hit the same rps_flow
entry this may cause thrashing of those connections between CPUs.  I
think your patch may increase the probability of this happening.

>
>
>

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-04-20 15:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-16  5:47 [PATCH v5] rfs: Receive Flow Steering Tom Herbert
2010-04-16  6:33 ` David Miller
2010-04-16  6:56   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-16  7:18     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-16  7:26       ` David Miller
2010-04-16  7:48         ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-17  7:52           ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] rps: rps_sock_flow_table is mostly read Eric Dumazet
2010-04-17  7:57             ` David Miller
2010-04-16 15:35     ` [PATCH v5] rfs: Receive Flow Steering Tom Herbert
2010-04-16 18:15       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-16 18:35     ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-16 18:53       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-16 20:42         ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-16 21:12           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-16 21:25             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-17 16:10             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-17 17:38               ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-18  0:06                 ` Changli Gao
2010-04-18 11:06                   ` Franco Fichtner
2010-04-19 20:09               ` David Miller
2010-04-19 20:23                 ` David Miller
2010-04-19 20:32                   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-19 21:19                     ` David Miller
2010-04-26  8:41                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-27 21:59                         ` David Miller
2010-04-27 22:08                           ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-27 22:10                             ` David Miller
2010-04-19 23:38                     ` Changli Gao
2010-04-20  5:59                       ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-20  7:56                         ` [PATCH net-next-2.6] rps: consistent rxhash Eric Dumazet
2010-04-20  8:18                           ` David Miller
2010-04-20 12:48                           ` Franco Fichtner
2010-04-20 13:16                             ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-20 14:03                               ` Franco Fichtner
2010-04-20 14:57                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-20 21:41                                   ` David Miller
2010-04-20 23:35                                     ` Changli Gao
2010-04-20 23:38                                       ` David Miller
2010-04-21 19:12                                     ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-23 20:44                                       ` David Miller
2010-05-06  8:06                                       ` David Miller
2010-05-06 14:45                                         ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-20 15:09                             ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-21  9:29                               ` Franco Fichtner
2010-04-21  9:39                                 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-21 11:06                                   ` Franco Fichtner
2010-04-21 11:16                                     ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-20 15:04                         ` Tom Herbert [this message]
2010-04-20 15:39                           ` [PATCH v5] rfs: Receive Flow Steering Eric Dumazet
2010-04-16 19:37   ` Eric Dumazet
2010-04-16 22:49     ` David Miller
2010-04-16 22:53       ` David Miller
2010-04-16 22:57         ` David Miller
2010-04-17  0:22           ` Tom Herbert
2010-04-17  0:58             ` David Miller
2010-04-16 11:57 ` Andi Kleen
2010-04-16 13:32   ` jamal
2010-04-16 13:42     ` Andi Kleen
2010-04-16 14:05       ` jamal
2010-04-16 15:28         ` Andi Kleen

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