netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/5] ixgbe: drop support for UDP in RSS hash generation

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Message-Id: <20100719.202417.218061462.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:24:17 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, bphilips@...ell.com,
	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com, donald.c.skidmore@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/5] ixgbe: drop support for UDP in RSS
 hash generation

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:59:27 -0700

> From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> 
> This change removes UDP from the supported protocols for RSS hashing.  The
> reason for removing this protocol is because IP fragmentation was causing a
> network flow to be broken into two streams, one for fragmented, and one for
> non-fragmented and this in turn was causing out-of-order issues.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
> Acked-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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