[PATCH 1/2] usertools/rss: add driver abstractions

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Tue, 21 Nov 2023 22:21:54 +0530
Jerin Jacob <jerinjacobk at gmail.com> wrote:

> > The tool should not need to have driver specific tables like this.
> > DPDK is already riddled with enough driver specific quirks..
> >
> > That shows a flaw in the rss design, which should have been fixed.  
> 
> Every NIC's implements standard Toeplitz hash algorithm for RSS hash generation.
> Only the initial SEED is different. It is not DPDK property, all the
> HW like is that as
> there is no standardization on initial SEED for hash.

The tool should be able to query the default key from driver, or the
build infrastructure should extract and generate the table.