netdev - Re: net: rps: support 802.1Q

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Date:	Thu, 18 Aug 2011 22:26:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	xiaosuo@...il.com
Cc:	eric.dumazet@...il.com, therbert@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net: rps: support 802.1Q

From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:22:03 +0800

> On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 1:08 PM, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote:
>> From: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
>> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 13:05:53 +0800
>>
>>> For the 802.1Q packets, if the NIC doesn't support hw-accel-vlan-rx, RPS
>>> won't inspect the internal 4 tuples to generate skb->rxhash, so this kind
>>> of traffic can't get any benefit from RPS.
>>>
>>> This patch adds the support for 802.1Q to RPS.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@...il.com>
>>
>> Looks fine, applied to net-next, thanks!
>>
> 
> Thanks for applying it. I have another patch which adds the support
> for PPPOE session messages. Do you think it worth doing?

Sure.
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