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Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] Symmetric RSS Hashing, Part 2
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On Mar 26, 2015, at 10:30 PM, Zhang, Helin <helin.zhang@intel.com> =
wrote:
> Hi guys
>=20
> Did you guys talk about symmetric hash in software or in hardware?
>=20
> If about hardware, I have one comment.
> I40e supports symmetric hash by hardware, which was enabled in i40e =
PMD recently. You can have a try.
>=20
> Regards,
> Helin

Hello Helin,

Very few of us have that hardware or driver yet.

It's also quite costly if you're doing the open-source model like I am.

Is there any way to get the symmetric mode to work for IGB or IXGBE?

Matthew.