From: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 17:59:43 -0400
> And where shall we put the configuration machinery, to support sub-queues? > Shall we duplicate the existing configuration code for sub-queues? > What will ifconfig/ip usage look like? > How will it differ from configurating full net_devices, if you are > assigning the same types of parameters? If you're asking about the virtualization scenerio, the control node (dom0 or whatever) is the only entity which can get at programming the filters and will set it up properly based upon which parts of the physical device are being exported to which guest nodes. For the non-virtualized case, it's a good question. But really the current hardware is just about simple queue steering, and simple static DRR/WRED fairness algorithms applied to the queues in hardware. We don't need to add support for configuring anything fancy from the start just to get something working. Especially the important bits such as the virtualization case and the interrupt and queue distribution case on SMP. The latter can even be configured automatically by the driver, and that's in fact what I expect drivers to do initially. - 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
