Fri, May 22, 2015 at 02:11:40AM CEST, t...@herbertland.com wrote:
>This patch adds full IPv6 addresses into flow_keys and uses them as
>input to the flow hash function. The implementation supports either
>IPv4 or IPv6 addresses in a union, and selector is used to determine
>how may words to input to jhash2.
>
>We also add flow_get_u32_dst and flow_get_u32_src functions which are
>used to get a u32 representation of the source and destination
>addresses. For IPv6, ipv6_addr_hash is called. These functions retain
>getting the legacy values of src and dst in flow_keys.
>
>With this patch, Ethertype and IP protocol are now included in the
>flow hash input.
>
>Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com>

...

>diff --git a/include/net/flow_dissector.h b/include/net/flow_dissector.h
>index cba6a10..306d461 100644
>--- a/include/net/flow_dissector.h
>+++ b/include/net/flow_dissector.h
>@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
>  */
> struct flow_dissector_key_control {
>       u16     thoff;
>-      u16     padding;
>+      u16     addr_type;


I don't understand why this is needed. I don't like this. You assign enum
flow_dissector_key_id to this. Why not just continue to use
key->basic.n_proto?
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