Re: [PATCH net-next,2/2] hv_netvsc: Exclude non-TCP port numbers from vRSS hashing

From: David Miller
Date: Mon Apr 17 2017 - 11:06:05 EST


From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 11:35:06 -0700

> From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Azure hosts are not supporting non-TCP port numbers in vRSS hashing for
> now. For example, UDP packet loss rate will be high if port numbers are
> also included in vRSS hash.
>
> So, we created this patch to use only IP numbers for hashing in non-TCP
> traffic.
>
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Applied.