Re: [PATCH net-next] hv_netvsc: use skb_get_hash() instead of a homegrown implementation

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Mon Jan 25 2016 - 12:09:42 EST


On Mon, 2016-01-25 at 16:00 +0100, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> Recent changes to 'struct flow_keys' (e.g commit d34af823ff40 ("net: Add
> VLAN ID to flow_keys")) introduced a performance regression in netvsc
> driver. Is problem is, however, not the above mentioned commit but the
> fact that netvsc_set_hash() function did some assumptions on the struct
> flow_keys data layout and this is wrong.
>
> Get rid of netvsc_set_hash() by switching to skb_get_hash(). This change
> will also imply switching to Jenkins hash from the currently used Toeplitz
> but it seems there is no good excuse for Toeplitz to stay.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks !