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

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Date:	Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:19:05 -0700
From:	Tom Herbert <therbert@...gle.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] bnx2x: add support for receive hashing

> I'm pretty sure there isn't at this point.
>
> We'll need to elide setting ->rxhash for non-TCP packets.  I bet that
> the ETH_FAST_PATH_RX_CQE_RSS_HASH_TYPE field might be usable to making
> this decision, but if not in the worst case we'll need to parse the
> VLAN/ETH and IP4/IP6 headers to figure out the protocol.
>
> Damn, I'm so pissed off about this.  This ruins everything!
>
> How damn hard is it to add two 16-bit ports to the hash regardless of
> protocol?
>
Fair question.

This also hits RSS/multiqueue. In a netperf RR test, 500 streams
between my two 16 core AMDs:  TCP 970K tps, UDP 370K tps.  I'm
surprised they didn't catch that in some benchmarks...
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