APPLIED: [artful][PATCH] hv_netvsc: Exclude non-TCP port numbers from vRSS hashing

Seth Forshee seth.forshee at canonical.com
Thu Jul 27 19:44:36 UTC 2017


On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:37:59AM -0300, Marcelo Henrique Cerri wrote:
> From: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com>
> 
> BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1690174
> 
> Azure hosts are not supporting non-TCP port numbers in vRSS hashing for
> now. For example, UDP packet loss rate will be high if port numbers are
> also included in vRSS hash.
> 
> So, we created this patch to use only IP numbers for hashing in non-TCP
> traffic.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz at microsoft.com>
> Reviewed-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin at microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem at davemloft.net>
> (backported from commit f72860afa2e32cdc674cbdd7f354f8fb62e908a6)
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Henrique Cerri <marcelo.cerri at canonical.com>
> 
> Conflicts:
> 	drivers/net/hyperv/netvsc_drv.c

Applied to artful/master-next, thanks.




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