[PATCH 0/4] net-next: dsa: fix flow dissection

David Miller davem at davemloft.net
Wed Aug 9 22:52:43 PDT 2017


From: John Crispin <john at phrozen.org>
Date: Wed,  9 Aug 2017 14:41:15 +0200

> RPS and probably other kernel features are currently broken on some if not
> all DSA devices. The root cause of this is that skb_hash will call the
> flow_dissector. At this point the skb still contains the magic switch
> header and the skb->protocol field is not set up to the correct 802.3
> value yet. By the time the tag specific code is called, removing the header
> and properly setting the protocol an invalid hash is already set. In the
> case of the mt7530 this will result in all flows always having the same
> hash.
> 
> Changes since RFC:
> * use a callback instead of static values
> * add cover letter

Series applied, thanks.



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