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diff --git a/Documentation/networking/scaling.rst b/Documentation/networking/scaling.rst index 03ae19a689fc..4eb50bcb9d42 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/scaling.rst +++ b/Documentation/networking/scaling.rst @@ -44,6 +44,21 @@ by masking out the low order seven bits of the computed hash for the packet (usually a Toeplitz hash), taking this number as a key into the indirection table and reading the corresponding value. +Some NICs support symmetric RSS hashing where, if the IP (source address, +destination address) and TCP/UDP (source port, destination port) tuples +are swapped, the computed hash is the same. This is beneficial in some +applications that monitor TCP/IP flows (IDS, firewalls, ...etc) and need +both directions of the flow to land on the same Rx queue (and CPU). The +"Symmetric-XOR" is a type of RSS algorithms that achieves this hash +symmetry by XORing the input source and destination fields of the IP +and/or L4 protocols. This, however, results in reduced input entropy and +could potentially be exploited. Specifically, the algorithm XORs the input +as follows:: + + # (SRC_IP ^ DST_IP, SRC_IP ^ DST_IP, SRC_PORT ^ DST_PORT, SRC_PORT ^ DST_PORT) + +The result is then fed to the underlying RSS algorithm. + Some advanced NICs allow steering packets to queues based on programmable filters. For example, webserver bound TCP port 80 packets can be directed to their own receive queue. Such “n-tuple” filters can |