On mer., 2016-02-17 at 15:44 -0500, David Miller wrote: > From: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com> > Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2016 08:32:08 +0000 > > > ...rather than a boolean merely indicating a canonical L4 hash. > > > > skb_set_hash() takes a hash type (from enum pkt_hash_types) as an > > argument but information is lost since only a single bit in the skb > > stores whether that hash type is PKT_HASH_TYPE_L4 or not. By using > > two bits it's possible to store the complete hash type information. > > > > Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durr...@citrix.com> > > Tom and/or Eric, please have a look at this.
I guess my question is simply 'why do we need this' ? Consuming a bit in our precious sk_buff is not something we want for some obscure feature.
