Re: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Add support for Virtual Receive Side Scaling (vRSS)

[Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>]

On Thu, 2013-12-19 at 13:43 -0800, Tom Herbert wrote:
> Patch is below. This version did most pre-computation of the variants
> I built, but results in largest table (40*256*4 bytes), This gives
> performance roughly comparable with jhash (roughly same as jhash for
> IPv4, about 30% more cycles for IPv6). I have the simpler less memory
> intensive versions also if you're interested, these are 10x worse
> cycles so I wouldn't want those in critical path.
> ----
> Introduce Toeplitz hash functions. Toeplitz is a hash used primarily in
> NICs to performan RSS flow steering.  This is a software implemenation
> of that. In order to make the hash calculation efficient, we precompute
> the possible hash values for each inidividual byte of input. The input
> length is up to 40 bytes, so we make an array of cache[40][256].
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You haven't addressed my comments here:
<http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/284753>

Ben.

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