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Date:	Wed, 29 Jul 2015 12:47:37 +0200
From:	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, kernel-team@...com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next 1/2] net: Set sk_txhash from a random number

On 07/29/15 at 12:06pm, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 11:54 +0200, Thomas Graf wrote:
> 
> > skb_set_hash_from_sk()
> > skb_get_hash()
> > 
> > Am I misreading this? I'm not using SO_REUSEPORT and it might be OK
> > to assume that different sockets may go to different queues even if
> > the L4 tuple is identical.
> 
> skb_set_hash_from_sk() sets skb->hash in output path. Nothing uses it
> then later. bonding uses its own hash functions.
> 
> SO_REUSEPORT is on input path, and uses its own hash anyway.

Yes, I'm talking about the output path only but after further reading,
the only case that could be a problem is if two SO_REUSEPORT sockets
connect to the same destination address and port which will be prevented
by connect anyway.
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