On Wed, May 24, 2017 at 04:01:28PM +0900, Heung Sik Choi wrote: > Thank you for replying > > Are you saying that you want to add RSS to the datapath to > move packets to different queues? Which queues? Or do you just want to > create a Toeplitz hashing algorithm function that will return a hash > value and it doesn't really have anything to do with RSS? > > Sorry to confuse you. specifically, I think a design where skb structure > has 'rss hash value' and ovs' datapath use this value when it lookup flow > table. the rss hash value can get in NIC driver(ex. ixgbe), and can be > inserted in skb structure. Also If I replace the jhash2 in flow_hash() > with Toeplitz hash, the 'rss hash' can be used to hash in ovs. How do you > think about it? please let me know if you have any insights.
If flow_hash() just returns a fixed hash value, then it won't hash the right parts of the packet. It takes a key range argument for a reason. _______________________________________________ discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/ovs-discuss
