netdev - Re: [PATCH 4/4] net-next: dsa: fix flow dissection

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Date:   Wed, 9 Aug 2017 15:55:08 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>
Cc:     Vivien Didelot <vivien.didelot@...oirfairelinux.com>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Sean Wang <sean.wang@...iatek.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-mediatek@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Muciri Gatimu <muciri@...nmesh.com>,
        Shashidhar Lakkavalli <shashidhar.lakkavalli@...nmesh.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/4] net-next: dsa: fix flow dissection

On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 02:41:19PM +0200, John Crispin wrote:
> RPS and probably other kernel features are currently broken on some if not
> all DSA devices. The root cause of this is that skb_hash will call the
> flow_dissector. At this point the skb still contains the magic switch
> header and the skb->protocol field is not set up to the correct 802.3
> value yet. By the time the tag specific code is called, removing the header
> and properly setting the protocol an invalid hash is already set. In the
> case of the mt7530 this will result in all flows always having the same
> hash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Muciri Gatimu <muciri@...nmesh.com>
> Signed-off-by: Shashidhar Lakkavalli <shashidhar.lakkavalli@...nmesh.com>
> Signed-off-by: John Crispin <john@...ozen.org>

Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>

    Andrew