netdev - Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: add support for receive hashing

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Message-Id: <20100426.105644.71114735.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 2010 10:56:44 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	therbert@...gle.com, eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: add support for receive hashing

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:47:52 +0100

> Unfortunately the widely-implemented Toeplitz hash functions are defined
> only for TCP/IPv4, TCP/IPv6, IPv4 and IPv6.

What a complete and utter waste all of this is then.

Defining the hash as TCP only is about as stupid as making hw checksum
offload be TCP only.

Really, I'm completely stunned.
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