Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 17:21:35 +1100 (EST) From: michael butler <imb@scgt.oz.au> To: dg@root.com Cc: davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu, netdev@roxanne.nuclecu.unam.mx, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ok, final sockhash changes, new diff Message-ID: <199703020621.RAA12400@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> In-Reply-To: <199703020156.RAA00329@root.com> from David Greenman at "Mar 1, 97 05:56:24 pm"
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David Greenman writes:
> The reason just occured to me: In the case of a server with googols of
> IP aliases, the {faddr, lport, fport} are all the same (faddr and fport
> are wildcards) for the listening sockets of a given service (say
> http)...so the only thing unique is the laddr, which if not included in
> the hash, will cause all of the listening sockets to be hashed to the same
> bucket.
This being the case, a simple counter (number of listens performed) added to
the hash would help redistribute across buckets - don't care about
wrap-around .. or am I off the planet ? :-)
michael
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