Le mardi 20 avril 2010 à 14:48 +0200, Franco Fichtner a écrit :

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> 
> I thought about this for some time...
> 
> Do we really need the port numbers here at all? A simple
> addr1^addr2 can provide a good enough pointer for
> distribution amongst CPUs.
> 
> The real connection tracking is better done locally at the
> corresponding CPU. That way a potential cache miss can be
> avoided and the still needed hash calculation for
> connection tracking will be offloaded.
> 

Yes, doing the port test/swap is useful in the loopback case 
(addr1 == addr2).

This is probably a bit convoluted, but David (and me) found this
funny ;)


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