netdev - Re: [RFC PATCH] packet: Add fanout support.

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Date:	Tue, 21 Jun 2011 14:31:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xiaosuo@...il.com
Cc:	victor@...iniac.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] packet: Add fanout support.

From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 21:05:24 +0800

> On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 6:46 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> From: Victor Julien <victor@...iniac.net>
>> Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:39:11 +0200
>>
>>> The hash based on skb->rxhash, does that result in a "flow" based
>>> distribution over the listeners? So all packets sharing a tuple
>>> being sent to the same socket?
>>
>> Yes, that's exactly right.
> 
> But not for fragments, in additional.

That's a fundamental issue in the RFS code which I've proposed
solutions for.
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