netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/4] net: ethtool: support including Flow Label in the flow hash for RSS

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Message-ID: <aJqNeO36UpQ5KFI-@MacBook-Air.local>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2025 17:40:24 -0700
From: Joe Damato <joe@...a.to>
To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, edumazet@...gle.com,
	pabeni@...hat.com, andrew+netdev@...n.ch, horms@...nel.org,
	donald.hunter@...il.com, michael.chan@...adcom.com,
	pavan.chebbi@...adcom.com, willemdebruijn.kernel@...il.com,
	ecree.xilinx@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 0/4] net: ethtool: support including Flow
 Label in the flow hash for RSS

On Mon, Aug 11, 2025 at 04:42:08PM -0700, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
> Add support for using IPv6 Flow Label in Rx hash computation
> and therefore RSS queue selection.

I think this is really interesting work; thanks for doing this.

Do you think that the docs (Documentation/networking/scaling.rst) should be
updated to mention this setting and the side effects of using it?

If you agree, maybe that can be a future thing so as not to hold this change
back.