On Tue, 2015-12-08 at 11:33 +0300, Alexander Drozdov wrote:
> 29.07.2015 02:02, Tom Herbert wrote:
> > This patch creates sk_set_txhash and eliminates protocol specific
> > inet_set_txhash and ip6_set_txhash. sk_set_txhash simply sets a
> > random number instead of performing flow dissection. sk_set_txash
> > is also allowed to be called multiple times for the same socket,
> > we'll need this when redoing the hash for negative routing advice.
> It seems that this patch and some previous txhash-related
> ones break af_packet hash features for outgoing packets:
> - PACKET_FANOUT_HASH
> - TP_FT_REQ_FILL_RXHASH
> 
> af_packet now thinks that hashes for for incoming and outgoing
> packets of the same TCP stream differ. That is true for TCP
> sessions initiated by the host.

There never has been such guarantee. Even rx hashes for a single TCP
flow can differ, if packets are received on two different NIC with
different RSSS keys.



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