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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