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charliedevolve on April 7, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Hidden latency in the Linux network stack

Mixing in the source port might be a good way to fix that hash function.

seabee on April 7, 2016 [–]

The hash is used to find listening sockets. Source port doesn't help you there.

Destination IP is a reasonable addition to the hash function, however.

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