From: Venkata Duvvuru <VenkatKumar.Duvvuru@Emulex.Com>
To: Amir Vadai <amirv@mellanox.com>
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Subject: RE: Patchset - Support for configurable RSS hash key
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 12:20:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <BF3270C86E8B1349A26C34E4EC1C44CB2C86E05F@CMEXMB1.ad.emulex.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140202161016.GA17000@mtl-eit-vdi-22.mtl.labs.mlnx>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Amir Vadai [mailto:amirv.mellanox@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Amir
> Vadai
> Sent: Sunday, February 02, 2014 9:40 PM
> To: Venkata Duvvuru
> Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org; Ben Hutchings
> Subject: Re: Patchset - Support for configurable RSS hash key
>
> On 17/01/14 13:02 +0000, Venkata Duvvuru wrote:
> > NIC drivers that support RSS use either a hard-coded value or a random
> value for the RSS hash key. Irrespective of the type of the key used, the user
> would want to change the hash key if he/she is not satisfied with the
> effectiveness of the default hash-key in spreading the incoming flows evenly
> across the RSS queues.
> >
> > This patch set provides support for configuring the RSS hash-key via the
> ethtool interface.
> >
> > The patch set consists of:
> > a) ethtool user-land patches
> > b) ethtool kernel patch
> > c) be2net patch that implements the ethtool hooks
>
> Hi,
>
> I would be happy to add support in setting the hash function in addition to
> the hash key.
>
> Mellanox NIC's have support in 2 hash functions: Toplitz and XOR.
>
> Let me if you can add it to your patchset or would like me to send a patch on
> top of yours to add it.
I would prefer you to add the proposed changes on top my patchset. I'm working on the review comments currently and I will post the patchset once the patches are ready.
>
> Thanks,
> Amir
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-05 12:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-01-17 13:02 [PATCH 0/4] Patchset - Support for configurable RSS hash key Venkata Duvvuru
2014-01-18 3:01 ` David Miller
2014-02-02 16:10 ` Amir Vadai
2014-02-05 12:20 ` Venkata Duvvuru [this message]
2014-02-05 12:24 ` Amir Vadai
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