Hi guys Did you guys talk about symmetric hash in software or in hardware?
If about hardware, I have one comment. I40e supports symmetric hash by hardware, which was enabled in i40e PMD recently. You can have a try. Regards, Helin > -----Original Message----- > From: dev [mailto:dev-bounces at dpdk.org] On Behalf Of Matthew Hall > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 2015 5:27 AM > To: Thomas Monjalon > Cc: dev at dpdk.org > Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Symmetric RSS Hashing, Part 2 > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 04:20:33PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > > 2015-03-23 10:05, Matt Laswell: > > > Hey Folks, > > > > > > I have essentially the same question as Matthew. Has there been > > > progress in this area? > > > > No, AFAIK. > > Submitting a patch would be a good start I think. > > Hi Thomas, > > We did have somebody in the past thread who tried the key recommended in a > scientific paper to get a symmetric hash, 0x6d5a I believe. However it didn't > seem to get the expected results when tested in real life. > > We're happy to make patches but we're not sure of the content to put in there > if the only such RSS key we heard about didn't work when it was tested. Is > there > a subject matter expert in RSS who would be able to assist in more detail to > figure out what went wrong? > > Matthew.