netdev - Re: [PATCH 6/8] net/mlx4_en: allow setting number of rx rings for, RSS/TCP

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Date:	Mon, 21 Nov 2011 16:57:30 +0000
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Yevgeny Petrilin <yevgenyp@...lanox.co.il>
CC:	<davem@...emloft.net>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	<ogerlitz@...lanox.com>, <oren@...lanox.co.il>,
	<amirv@...lanox.co.il>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/8] net/mlx4_en: allow setting number of rx rings for,
 RSS/TCP

On Mon, 2011-11-21 at 10:43 +0200, Yevgeny Petrilin wrote:
> From: Amir Vadai <amirv@...lanox.co.il>
> 
> Make RSS TCP divert packets only to part of the rx rings, other could be
> accessed by using flow steering or RFS acceleration
[...]

The ethtool {get,set}_rxfh_indir operations are a standard and more
flexible interface for configuring this.

Ben.

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