netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/8] xen-netback: support toeplitz hashing

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Date:	Fri, 12 Feb 2016 05:54:08 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	paul.durrant@...rix.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v1 0/8] xen-netback: support toeplitz hashing

From: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 10:13:17 +0000

> This patch series adds support for frontend-configurable toeplitz hashing
> in xen-netback (on the guest receive side). This support has been testing
> against a Windows frontend and has proven to be sufficient to pass the
> Microsoft HCK NDIS RSS tests.

We want less Toeplitz users, not more of them.  It is a more unsuitable
hash than jhash2.

I'm not applying these patches, sorry.