Patch "net/mlx4_en: really allow to change RSS key" has been added to the 4.1-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net/mlx4_en: really allow to change RSS key
to the 4.1-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-mlx4_en-really-allow-to-change-rss-key.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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From foo@baz Wed Sep 30 05:18:31 CEST 2015
From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2015 18:29:47 -0700
Subject: net/mlx4_en: really allow to change RSS key
From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]>
[ Upsteam commit 4671fc6d47e0a0108fe24a4d830347d6a6ef4aa7 ]
When changing rss key, we do not want to overwrite user provided key by the one provided by netdev_rss_key_fill(), which is the host random key generated at boot time.
--- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/en_rx.c +0 -2
@@ -1256,8 +1256,6 @@ int mlx4_en_config_rss_steer(struct mlx4 rss_context->hash_fn =MLX4_RSS_HASH_TOP ;memcpy (rss_context->rss_key, priv->rss_key,MLX4_EN_RSS_KEY_SIZE ); -netdev_rss_key_fill (rss_context->rss_key, -MLX4_EN_RSS_KEY_SIZE ); }else {en_err (priv,"Unknown RSS hash function requested\n" ); err = -EINVAL ;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.1/net-mlx4_en-really-allow-to-change-rss-key.patch queue-4.1/tcp-add-proper-ts-val-into-rst-packets.patch