I see. Thanks for the explanation.
On 3 January 2014 12:36, Jesse Gross <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Joe Stringer <[email protected]> wrote: >> This patch adds the logic used for TCP and UDP in b0f3a2feef >> (datapath: Use percpu allocator for flow-stats.) to SCTP. This should >> help to detect longer-lived flows that match on SCTP, for use with the >> per-cpu allocator for flow-stats. >> >> Signed-off-by: Joe Stringer <[email protected]> >> --- >> Pravin, I noticed that this code was added to TCP and UDP, and am >> guessing that it's just as relevant to SCTP. If this doesn't make sense, >> feel free to drop it. > > It wasn't an omission or at least not an accidental one. Not that many > NICs recognize SCTP for the purposes of hashing on the L4 ports, which > is the reason why packets would land on different CPUs. This is just a > heuristic so it's not always right but that was the rationale. _______________________________________________ dev mailing list [email protected] http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
