igb: drop support for UDP hashing w/ RSS
authorAlexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Thu, 1 Jul 2010 20:01:05 +0000 (20:01 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tue, 6 Jul 2010 01:50:54 +0000 (18:50 -0700)
This change removes UDP from the supported protocols for RSS hashing.  The
reason for removing this protocol is because IP fragmentation was causing a
network flow to be broken into two streams, one for fragmented, and one for
non-fragmented and this in turn was causing out-of-order issues.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/igb/igb_main.c

index 9cb04e2..9465617 100644 (file)
@@ -2717,14 +2717,16 @@ static void igb_setup_mrqc(struct igb_adapter *adapter)
        }
        igb_vmm_control(adapter);
 
-       mrqc |= (E1000_MRQC_RSS_FIELD_IPV4 |
-                E1000_MRQC_RSS_FIELD_IPV4_TCP);
-       mrqc |= (E1000_MRQC_RSS_FIELD_IPV6 |
-                E1000_MRQC_RSS_FIELD_IPV6_TCP);
-       mrqc |= (E1000_MRQC_RSS_FIELD_IPV4_UDP |
-                E1000_MRQC_RSS_FIELD_IPV6_UDP);
-       mrqc |= (E1000_MRQC_RSS_FIELD_IPV6_UDP_EX |
-                E1000_MRQC_RSS_FIELD_IPV6_TCP_EX);
+       /*
+        * Generate RSS hash based on TCP port numbers and/or
+        * IPv4/v6 src and dst addresses since UDP cannot be
+        * hashed reliably due to IP fragmentation
+        */
+       mrqc |= E1000_MRQC_RSS_FIELD_IPV4 |
+               E1000_MRQC_RSS_FIELD_IPV4_TCP |
+               E1000_MRQC_RSS_FIELD_IPV6 |
+               E1000_MRQC_RSS_FIELD_IPV6_TCP |
+               E1000_MRQC_RSS_FIELD_IPV6_TCP_EX;
 
        wr32(E1000_MRQC, mrqc);
 }