netdev - Re: Receive Side Support (RSS) - Adding support into the kernel

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Message-Id: <20081121.152612.60802006.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:26:12 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	brampton@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Receive Side Support (RSS) - Adding support into the kernel

From: "Andrew Brampton" <brampton@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 17:48:22 +0000

> Hi,
> Recently I've been interested in receive side support (RSS)[1], the

It's receive side "scaling", not "support".

> There are three RSS settings which can be configured
> 1) Which fields of the packet get hashed.
> 2) The key used by the hashing algorithm
> 3) The indirection table, which is used to map a 7bit hash value to a
> particular core.

We already have an ethtool interface for configuring aspects of this,
with more knobs on the way.
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