svn commit: r263198 - in head/sys: amd64/conf conf net netinet netinet6 sys

David Malone dwmalone at maths.tcd.ie
Mon Mar 17 07:54:40 UTC 2014


>   (1) Merge a software implementation of the Toeplitz hash specified in
>       RSS implemented by David Malone.  This is used to allow suitable
>       pcbgroup placement of connections before the first packet is
>       received from the NIC.  Software hashing is generally avoided,
>       however, due to high cost of the hash on general-purpose CPUs.

I could look at a faster software implementation, but I guess most of
the value is when hashing is done on the NIC.

	David.


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