netdev - Re: [net-next,1/2] net: Set sk_txhash from a random number

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Date:	Wed, 9 Dec 2015 14:14:10 +0300
From:	Alexander Drozdov <al.drozdov@...il.com>
To:	Tom Herbert <tom@...bertland.com>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel Team <kernel-team@...com>
Subject: Re: [net-next,1/2] net: Set sk_txhash from a random number

08.12.2015 19:33, Tom Herbert wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 5:15 AM, Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com> wrote:
>> There never has been such guarantee. Even rx hashes for a single TCP
>> flow can differ, if packets are received on two different NIC with
>> different RSSS keys.
>>
> +1, it is a salient property that hashes can differ in each direction
> for a flow and that the hash for a flow can change over time.
Thanks! I'll then try to move onto BPF fanout.
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