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

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Message-ID: <BF3270C86E8B1349A26C34E4EC1C44CB2C8A255E@CMEXMB1.ad.emulex.com>
Date:	Tue, 1 Apr 2014 15:19:48 +0000
From:	Venkata Duvvuru <VenkatKumar.Duvvuru@...lex.Com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"ben@...adent.org.uk" <ben@...adent.org.uk>
CC:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH v5 net-next 0/2] patchset: Support for configurable RSS
 hash key

> > 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?

The current structure has got three u32 reserved fields already. We could use one of them when the support is added.
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