netdev - [PATCH 0/4]: Revamp TX hashing.

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Message-Id: <20090127.164024.141230513.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 27 Jan 2009 16:40:24 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 0/4]: Revamp TX hashing.

The simple_tx_hash() function we currently have in
net/core/dev.c is very rudimental and doesn't handle
routing and firewall scenerios very well.

The next 4 patches attempt to cure that.  The end result
is:

1) The RX queue selection of the input device seeds the
   TX queue selection for that SKB.

2) Locally generated packets seed the TX queue using
   skb->sk->sk_hash

Then we kill off the by-hand hashing code since in all cases
that matter it is no longer necessary.

Protocols that fail to store a proper sk->sk_hash value will
need to be fixed up to do so.  I encourage anyone so motivated
to do that audit :-)
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