netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: fix saving TX flow hash in sock for outgoing connections

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Date:	Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:14:02 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	Sathya.Perla@...lex.Com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	therbert@...gle.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: fix saving TX flow hash in sock for outgoing
 connections

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 12:09:56 -0700

> On Wed, 2014-10-22 at 18:35 +0000, Sathya Perla wrote:
>> Agree. Are you suggesting that drivers should automatically
>> register an XPS configuration? I thought it was upto the user
>> to enable it...
> 
> Yep, search for netif_set_xps_queue()
> 
> (commit 537c00de1c9ba9876b9)
> 
> Look at commit d03a68f8217ea0349 for an example of how it can be done,
> if user do not override this later.

Very few people know about this :-/

I only see 4 drivers adjusted to do this, it would be nice if this
was more widespread.
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