netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] igb: example of how to update igb to make use of in-kernel Toeplitz hashing

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Date:	Fri, 17 Dec 2010 21:09:23 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alexander.h.duyck@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/3] igb: example of how to update igb to make use
 of in-kernel Toeplitz hashing

From: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@...el.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:00:48 -0800

> @@ -1691,6 +1692,7 @@ static const struct net_device_ops igb_netdev_ops = {
>  	.ndo_open		= igb_open,
>  	.ndo_stop		= igb_close,
>  	.ndo_start_xmit		= igb_xmit_frame_adv,
> +	.ndo_select_queue	= toeplitz_select_queue,
>  	.ndo_get_stats64	= igb_get_stats64,
>  	.ndo_set_rx_mode	= igb_set_rx_mode,
>  	.ndo_set_multicast_list	= igb_set_rx_mode,

Adding a NETIF_F_TX_TOEPLITZ flag that skb_tx_hash() keys off of would
be a lot simpler.

We want less overriding of ->ndo_select_queue(), not more, and this case
is definitely gratuitous.
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