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From: David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
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Subject: Re: svn commit: r263198 - in head/sys: amd64/conf conf net netinet
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>   (1) Merge a software implementation of the Toeplitz hash specified in
>       RSS implemented by David Malone.  This is used to allow suitable
>       pcbgroup placement of connections before the first packet is
>       received from the NIC.  Software hashing is generally avoided,
>       however, due to high cost of the hash on general-purpose CPUs.

I could look at a faster software implementation, but I guess most of
the value is when hashing is done on the NIC.

	David.