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

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Message-Id: <20160212.114146.557404301623026279.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 12 Feb 2016 11:41:46 -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 11:07:50 +0000

> Windows *requires* use of Teoplitz so your position completely rules
> out being able to support receive side scaling in Windows PV
> frontends on Linux kernel backends, not only for Xen but for any
> other hypervisor, which I think is totally unreasonable.

We have strong reason to believe that Toeplitz has properties that
make it very weak if not exploitable, therefore doing software RSS
with Jenkins is superior.