I am using mellanox Connectx6, dpdk 22 'MT2892 Family [ConnectX-6 Dx] 101d' if=ens5f1 drv=mlx5_core unused=igb_uio I configure port with multiqueue and split traffic according to ip+port I want to calculate the hash as the nic do, to be able to load balance traffic ( from another card ) - the information is inside the packet and not in in ip and transport layer. For this purpose i need to be able to calculate the hash value as the nic do for the first nic. Here is the code i use to split traffic to rx queues /*rte flow*/ const int MAX_PATTERN_IN_FLOW = 10; const int MAX_ACTIONS_IN_FLOW = 10; struct rte_flow_attr attr; struct rte_flow_item pattern[MAX_PATTERN_IN_FLOW]; struct rte_flow_action actions[MAX_ACTIONS_IN_FLOW]; struct rte_flow *flow; struct rte_flow_error error; memset(pattern, 0, sizeof(pattern)); memset(actions, 0, sizeof(actions)); /* Set the rule attribute, only ingress packets will be checked. 8< */ memset(&attr, 0, sizeof(struct rte_flow_attr)); attr.ingress = 1; pattern[0].type = RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_ETH; pattern[0].spec = NULL; pattern[1].type = RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_IPV4; pattern[1].spec = NULL; pattern[2].type = RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_GRE; pattern[2].spec = NULL; pattern[3].type = RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_ETH; pattern[3].spec = NULL; pattern[4].type = RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_IPV4; pattern[4].spec = NULL; pattern[5].type = RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_UDP; pattern[5].spec = NULL; // end the pattern array pattern[6].type = RTE_FLOW_ITEM_TYPE_END; struct rte_flow_action_rss rss_conf; uint16_t queues[pi_nNumRxQueues]; rss_conf.func = RTE_ETH_HASH_FUNCTION_DEFAULT; uint64_t hf = RTE_ETH_RSS_IP | RTE_ETH_RSS_TCP | RTE_ETH_RSS_UDP | RTE_ETH_RSS_SCTP; hf &= pi_devInfo.flow_type_rss_offloads; rss_conf.types = hf; rss_conf.queue_num = pi_nNumRxQueues; for (int nqQueueIndex= 0; nqQueueIndex < pi_nNumRxQueues; nqQueueIndex++) queues[nqQueueIndex] = nqQueueIndex; rss_conf.queue = queues; rss_conf.key_len = 0; rss_conf.key = NULL; rss_conf.level = 2; // create the drop action actions[0].type = RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_RSS; actions[0].conf = &rss_conf; actions[1].type = RTE_FLOW_ACTION_TYPE_END; // validate and create the flow rule if (rte_flow_validate(pi_nPort, &attr, pattern, actions, &error)==0) { flow = rte_flow_create(pi_nPort, &attr, pattern, actions, &error); if(flow){//success} else{//error} } else {error} } And this is how i tried to get the hash value saved in the mbuf, but failed uint8_t rss_hash_default_key[] = { 0x2c, 0xc6, 0x81, 0xd1, 0x5b, 0xdb, 0xf4, 0xf7, 0xfc, 0xa2, 0x83, 0x19, 0xdb, 0x1a, 0x3e, 0x94, 0x6b, 0x9e, 0x38, 0xd9, 0x2c, 0x9c, 0x03, 0xd1, 0xad, 0x99, 0x44, 0xa7, 0xd9, 0x56, 0x3d, 0x59, 0x06, 0x3c, 0x25, 0xf3, 0xfc, 0x1f, 0xdc, 0x2a, }; static inline uint32_t do_softrss(struct rte_mbuf *m) { uint32_t input_len; struct rte_ipv4_tuple ipv4_tuple; char * pRawPacket = static_cast(rte_pktmbuf_mtod(pi_mbuf, void* )); IpHeader * pIpHeader = (IpHeader *)(pRawPacket + offsetOfIp); if(pIpHeader->GetVersion()==4) { ipv4_tuple.src_addr = rte_be_to_cpu_32(pIpHeader->dwSrcAddressBigEndian); ipv4_tuple.dst_addr = rte_be_to_cpu_32(pIpHeader->dwDstAddressBigEndian); ipv4_tuple.sport = *(uint16_t*)(pRawPacket + transportLayerOffset); ipv4_tuple.dport = *(uint16_t*)(pRawPacket + transportLayerOffset+2); input_len = RTE_THASH_V4_L3_LEN; return rte_softrss_be((uint32_t *)&ipv4_tuple, input_len, rss_key_be); } return 0; } new_rss = do_softrss(mbuf_pointer); std::cout<< std::hex << mbuf_pointer->hash.rss << " -> " << new_rss << std::dec << std::endl; And i get a different value than the mbuf_pointer->hash.rss 5ed28a5c -> 33eb33eb 974c1896 -> 24e224e2 1edf1638 -> 21752175 8a54c19 -> 80638063 459a6f76 -> 1b351b35 1cdf1d1c -> e53be53b **** I understand it is possible to do it, but i don't get the same value *** ethtool -i ens5f0 driver: mlx5_core version: 5.8-3.0.7 firmware-version: 22.32.2004 (MT_0000000437) expansion-rom-version: bus-info: 0000:83:00.0 supports-statistics: yes supports-test: yes supports-eeprom-access: no supports-register-dump: no supports-priv-flags: yes