netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] RPS: Ensure that an expired hardware filter can be re-added later

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Message-Id: <20111003.121454.1901988100913775562.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 03 Oct 2011 12:14:54 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com,
	amirv@....mellanox.co.il
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] RPS: Ensure that an expired hardware filter
 can be re-added later

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2011 15:42:46 +0100

> Amir Vadai wrote:
>> When a stream is paused, and its rule is expired while it is paused,
>> no new rule will be configured to the HW when traffic resume.
> [...]
>> - When stream was resumed, traffic was steered again by RSS, and
>> because current-cpu was equal to desired-cpu,  ndo_rx_flow_steer
>> wasn't called and no rule was configured to the HW.
> 
> Fix this by setting the flow's current CPU only in the table for the
> newly selected RX queue.
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: Amir Vadai <amirv@....mellanox.co.il>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied, thanks.
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