netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next,2/2] hv_netvsc: Exclude non-TCP port numbers from vRSS hashing

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Date:   Mon, 17 Apr 2017 11:05:43 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     haiyangz@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...hange.microsoft.com
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, kys@...rosoft.com, olaf@...fle.de,
        vkuznets@...hat.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next,2/2] hv_netvsc: Exclude non-TCP port numbers
 from vRSS hashing

From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...hange.microsoft.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:35:06 -0700

> From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
> 
> Azure hosts are not supporting non-TCP port numbers in vRSS hashing for
> now. For example, UDP packet loss rate will be high if port numbers are
> also included in vRSS hash.
> 
> So, we created this patch to use only IP numbers for hashing in non-TCP
> traffic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@...rosoft.com>

Applied.