From: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:04:58 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
> 
> After a good amount of debugging, I found bnx2x was byte swaping
> the 40 bytes of rss_key.
> 
> If we byte swap the key, then bnx2x generates hashes matching
> MSDN specs as documented in (Verifying the RSS Hash Calculation)
> 
> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/hardware/ff571021%
> 28v=vs.85%29.aspx
> 
> It is mostly a non issue, unless we want to mix different NIC
> in a host, and want consistent hashing among all of them, ie
> if they all use the boot time generated rss key, or if some application
> is choosing specific tuple(s) so that incoming traffic lands into known
> rx queue(s).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>

Applied, thanks.
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