Hi Thomas Graf,
On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 14:16:05 +0200, Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> What I'm worried about is that we lose the zero collisions behaviour
> for the most popular use case.
If a web interface is used to generate netfilter/tc rules that use
nfmark, then the above assumption is false. nfmark will be used
incrementally and wrapped back to 0 somewhere like process id. So zero
collision is not likely.
When linux's QoS control capability is widely used, such web interface
sooner or later comes into being.
> New idea: we make this configureable and allow 3 types of hash functions:
> 1) default as-is, perfect for marks 0..255
> 2) all bits taken into account (your patch)
> 3) bitmask + shift provided by the user just like
> dsmark.
>
> Thoughts?
Your suggestion is very considerable. But that needs some more work. And,
isn't that some bloated?
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lark
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