netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: Small bug on rxhash calculation

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Date:	Thu, 06 Sep 2012 08:42:13 +0200
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Chema Gonzalez <chema@...keley.edu>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, edumazet@...gle.com,
	Chema Gonzalez <chema@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: Small bug on rxhash calculation

On Wed, 2012-09-05 at 23:35 -0700, Chema Gonzalez wrote:
> From 5c02179069826bfba9360383b88601b31ff05517 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Chema Gonzalez <chema@...gle.com>
> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2012 17:05:48 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] net: Small bug on rxhash calculation
> 
> While the (current) sorting of the ports/addresses is coherent
> (you get the same rxhash for packets sharing the same (unsorted)
> 4-tuple), ports and addresses should not be sorted independently,
> which currently are: For traffic between A=S:l and B=L:s, packets
> in both directions would get their rxhash from hashing
> {L, S, {s, l}}. The same rxhash is obtained from packets between
> C=S:s and D=L:l.
> 
> This patch ensures traffic between A and B gets their rxhash
> from {S, L, {s, l}}, and traffic between C and D from {S, L,
> {l, s}}
> 
> The patch is co-written with Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Chema Gonzalez <chema@...gle.com>
> ---

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Thanks !


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