On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 11:45:55AM -0700, Arlie Stephens wrote: > I don't know for sure what linux does, but the NICs I've seen with > multiple queues tend to select queues by hashing incoming packets > based on source IP, sourse port, destination IP, destination port and > (if TCP) protocol. > > This is done because you generally want all packets for a given > connection in the same queue. > > For a single ping, always to the same destination, all packets will > hash the same, and so wind up in the same queue. > I think what you are referring to is called RSS(Recieve side scalling), which I think is a different feature. IIRC, windows ndis driver implements this feature. _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies
