netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv6: use a stronger hash for tcp

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Message-ID: <1361486903.32484.0.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:48:23 -0800
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Neal Cardwell <ncardwell@...gle.com>,
	Yuchung Cheng <ycheng@...gle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv6: use a stronger hash for tcp

On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 23:43 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> 
> Perhaps we should use ipv6_addr_jhash in the destination cache, too, and look
> at other uses of ipv6_addr_hash?

Sure, an audit is needed, but with tcp early demux, TCP lookup was the
first weak point.

Thanks


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