netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] fq_codel: Avoid regenerating skb flow hash unless necessary

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Date:   Fri, 20 Jan 2017 09:31:55 -0800
From:   Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:     Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Cc:     Andrew Collins <acollins@...dlepoint.com>,
        Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] fq_codel: Avoid regenerating skb flow hash
 unless necessary

On Fri, 2017-01-20 at 09:23 -0800, Tom Herbert wrote:

> So the perturbing of the hash is no longer needed for fq_codel?

Right, we never implemented a timer to change the perturbation anyway.

Note that local TCP flows now implement their own hash change when
needed.