netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/2] ethtool: Add support for control of RX flow hash indirection

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Message-Id: <20100630.141054.146101455.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:10:54 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next-2.6 1/2] ethtool: Add support for control of
 RX flow hash indirection

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:05:23 +0100

> Many NICs use an indirection table to map an RX flow hash value to one
> of an arbitrary number of queues (not necessarily a power of 2).  It
> can be useful to remove some queues from this indirection table so
> that they are only used for flows that are specifically filtered
> there.  It may also be useful to weight the mapping to account for
> user processes with the same CPU-affinity as the RX interrupts.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Looks good, applied, thanks Ben.
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