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On Tue, 2013-09-24 at 15:16 -0700, Tom Herbert wrote:
>  If it's a big win for conntrack to process packets on same CPUs for
> both directions, we should program the RFS table to accomplish that.

conntrack uses no userland code, no user thread, so what are you going
to put in RFS table ?

Right now, RPS can be used for proper steering, you only have to
"ethtool -K eth{x} rxhash off"

[ Of course, this is becoming less a concern with multiqueue nics ]