vikram wrote:
> I am vikram, a graduate student in Arizona State University.
> 
> I am trying to bring up one set up where i am using igb driver e1000,
> where in i would like to send the Ip packets across all the queues
> associated with the port instead just one or two. I know some hash
> algorithm in kernel source code selects the queue based on some
> hashing mechanism but i don't know where exactly it is.

if you're using 2.6.27 or newer, tx uses simple_tx_hash function for 
tx queue selection.  rx uses a hash in hardware called RSS.  varying
any of the ip source/dest, source port/dest, or protocol will help
distribute to any of the tx queues.
 
> Could some one please throw light on this. Also it would be great if
> some one could tell me how to go about making the ip packets to span
> across all the 4 queues instead of just one.

see above.
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