From: Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com> Date: Wed, 29 Jul 2015 13:49:03 -0700
> The intent of this function was to produce a consistent hash for both > directions of a flow. However, since we added more inputs to the flow > hashing (IPv6 flow labels for instance) in a lot of cases we won't get > the same hash computed for each direction anyway. Also, there is no > defined correlation between the hashes computed in each direction of a > flow. > > This patch removes the function since it is not providing significant > value and is expensive to be called for every packet. If there are > ever users of the flow_hash_from_keys that did require consistency > they can swap addresses and ports as needed in the flow_keys before > calling flow_hash_from_keys. > > Signed-off-by: Tom Herbert <t...@herbertland.com> The conntrack issue needs to be sorted out before I can consider this change seriously. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
