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diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst index 91fa4ccd326c..19408da2390b 100644 --- a/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst +++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/sysctl/net.rst @@ -314,21 +314,22 @@ Default: 1000 netdev_rss_key -------------- -RSS (Receive Side Scaling) enabled drivers use a 40 bytes host key that is -randomly generated. +RSS (Receive Side Scaling) enabled drivers use a host key that +is randomly generated. Some user space might need to gather its content even if drivers do not provide ethtool -x support yet. :: myhost:~# cat /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_rss_key - 84:50:f4:00:a8:15:d1:a7:e9:7f:1d:60:35:c7:47:25:42:97:74:ca:56:bb:b6:a1:d8: ... (52 bytes total) + 84:50:f4:00:a8:15:d1:a7:e9:7f:1d:60:35:c7:47:25:42:97:74:ca:56:bb:b6:a1:d8: ... (256 bytes total) -File contains nul bytes if no driver ever called netdev_rss_key_fill() function. +File contains all nul bytes if no driver ever called netdev_rss_key_fill() +function. Note: - /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_rss_key contains 52 bytes of key, - but most drivers only use 40 bytes of it. + /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_rss_key contains 256 bytes of key, + but many drivers only use 40 or 52 bytes of it. :: |