[RFC] Removal of M_FLOWID flag from m_flags [WAS: Add support for hardware transmit rate limiting queues]
Hans Petter Selasky
hps at selasky.org
Wed Nov 19 19:35:28 UTC 2014
On 11/19/14 20:32, Adrian Chadd wrote:
> The RSS hash is also used for:
>
> * TCP timers,
> * UDP transmit, and
> * the transmit path in RSS aware drivers (igb / ixgbe)
>
I know, and the RSS flowid values are still preserved as before in the
receive path. It is just about how you tell the upper/lower layers that
there is something in the "m_pkthdr.flowid" which they can use to
accelerate traffic.
--HPS
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