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Date:	Tue, 05 Jul 2011 19:15:35 +0200
From:	Victor Julien <victor@...iniac.net>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	"Loke, Chetan" <Chetan.Loke@...scout.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] packet: Add fanout support.

On 07/05/2011 06:23 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Le mardi 05 juillet 2011 à 18:21 +0200, Victor Julien a écrit :
>> On 07/05/2011 06:16 PM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>>> Remember, goal is that _all_ packets of a given flow end in same queue.
>>>
>>
>> What about a hashing scheme based on just the ip addresses? Would make
>> rxhash useless for this purpose, but would be a lot simpler overall maybe...
>>
> 
> What about loads where a single IP address is used ?

How would that be a problem?

> I wonder what's the problem, since David added a defrag unit ;)

No problem, I just suggested it as Chetan Loke brought up the hashing
suggestion. David's solution would work fine for me.

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