Flow ID, LACP, and igb

Scott Long scott4long at yahoo.com
Mon Aug 26 23:56:01 UTC 2013


On Aug 26, 2013, at 5:30 PM, Adrian Chadd <adrian at freebsd.org> wrote:

> ... is there any reason we wouldn't want to have the TX and RX for a given
> flow mapped to the same core?
> 


Given than an inbound ACK is likely to be turned into an outbound segment
from within the same execution context and CPU instance, I can't imagine why
it would be useful for these flows to be different.  However, I'm still a n00b at
this networking stuff, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

Scott



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