On 07/31/2011 11:56 AM, am1463 wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 7:13 PM, Alexander Duyck
> <[email protected]>  wrote:
>> Gorgos,
>>
>> I would recommend looking at some patches I had submitted as an RFC back in
>> December.
>>
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/76051/
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/76052/
>> http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/76053/
>>
>> What they provided was a framework similar to what you have described.  The
>> piece that will likely be of most interest to use is the changes to
>> ixgbe_setup_mrqc that can be found in patch 2 of the 3 above.  What it
>> specifically did is reduce the RSS key to a 16 bit repeating value.  The
>> advantage of this is that it makes the TX and RX flow hash result the same
>> using the same process.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Alex
>>
> Does is suffer any overhead  (e.g. due to extra computational cost)?
>
> Thanks!
Not that I am aware of.  Essentially what the patch set mentioned above 
does is replace one hash function with another.

Thanks,

Alex

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