netdev - Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 04/11] net: Get skb hash over flow

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Message-ID: <20150522065240.GD2138@nanopsycho.orion>
Date:	Fri, 22 May 2015 08:52:40 +0200
From:	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
To:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 net-next 04/11] net: Get skb hash over flow_keys
 structure

Fri, May 22, 2015 at 02:11:39AM CEST, tom@...bertland.com wrote:
>This patch changes flow hashing to use jhash2 over the flow_keys
>structure instead just doing jhash_3words over src, dst, and ports.
>This method will allow us take more input into the hashing function
>so that we can include full IPv6 addresses, VLAN, flow labels etc.
>without needing to resort to xor'ing which makes for a poor hash.
>
>Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>
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