From: Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, 22 Aug 2005 01:13:21 +0200
> > Basically, you'll have skb->free_callback(skb, ARG), and > > skb->free_callback_ARG. And when the SKB and it's memory > > is about to get liberated, we'll call the callback instead > > of doing the free if the callback is non-NULL. > > One issue is that the NIC focus shouldn't be reprogrammed for every > packet because that would be too expensive. The NIC is going to track this state internally in a cache, completely transparently from the OS (besides the callback), and use MSI vectors to target specific cpus based upon that information. Perhaps I'm missing something here. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
