netdev - RE: [PATCH 02/15] net: bnx2x calls skb_set

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Date:	Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:00:29 -0000
From:	"David Laight" <David.Laight@...LAB.COM>
To:	"Tom Herbert" <therbert@...gle.com>, <davem@...emloft.net>,
	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 02/15] net: bnx2x calls skb_set_hash

> From: Tom Herbert
> Drivers should call skb_set_hash to set the hash and its type
> in an skbuff.
...
>  		/* Set Toeplitz hash for a none-LRO skb */
> -		skb->rxhash = bnx2x_get_rxhash(bp, cqe_fp, &l4_rxhash);
> -		skb->l4_rxhash = l4_rxhash;
> +		rxhash = bnx2x_get_rxhash(bp, cqe_fp, &l4_rxhash);
> +		skb_set_hash(skb, rxhash,
> +			     l4_rxhash ? PKT_HASH_TYPE_L4 : PKT_HASH_TYPE_L3);

This is all silly, skb_set_rxhash() just undoes that conditional.
The compiler might be smart enough to undo it all.

IMHO skb->l4_rxhash should be skb->rx_hash_type and set to one
of the PKT_HASH_TYPE_xxx constants.
(with 0 => no hash assigned)

	David



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