On Thursday 02 February 2006 17:27, Leonid Grossman wrote: > By now we have submitted UFO, MSI-X and LRO patches. The one item on > the TODO list that we did not submit a full driver patch for is the > "support for distributing receive processing across multiple CPUs (using > NIC hw queues)", mainly because at present the feature can't be fully > used by the host anyways.
Why are you saying it can't be used by the host? The stack should be fully ready for it. The only small piece missing is a way to set the IRQ affinity from the kernel, but that can be simulated from user space by tweaking them in /proc. If you have a prototype patch adding the kernel interfaces wouldn't be that hard neither. Also how about per CPU TX completion interrupts? -Andi - 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
