netdev - Re: RFC - VXLAN port range facility

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Date:	Fri, 31 May 2013 15:09:34 +0900
From:	Jesse Gross <jesse@...ira.com>
To:	David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: RFC - VXLAN port range facility

On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 3:00 AM, David Stevens <dlstevens@...ibm.com> wrote:
> But I don't think there's particular advantage in splitting it up 30,000
> ways when 10 ways would be both practical, for binding, and spread
> traffic to 10 flows potentially.

Most people that run large data centers think that 16 bits of entropy
is barely sufficient. The issue is not CPUs or link aggregation but
Clos fabrics built using ECMP.
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