netdev - Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 0/2] patchset: Support for configurable RSS hash key

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2014 17:12:53 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	ben@...adent.org.uk
Cc:	VenkatKumar.Duvvuru@...lex.Com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 net-next 0/2] patchset: Support for configurable RSS
 hash key

From: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 01:39:30 +0000

> By grouping the key and hash together, with some reserved fields (which
> the setter should initially require to be equal to zero), it should be
> possible to fill in support for numbered RSS contexts later without yet
> another new structure and operations.

If that is the case, why don't we add from the start a "u32 rss_context;"
field that has to be set to zero for now?
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