> -----Original Message----- > From: J Hadi Salim [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of jamal
> For the Leonid-NIC (for lack of better name) it may be harder to do > parallelization on rcv if you use what i said above. But you could > use a different model on receive - such as create a single netdev and > with 8 rcv rings and MSI tied on rcv to 8 different CPUs > Anyways, it is an important discussion to have. ttl. Call it "IOV-style NIC" :-) Or something like that, it's a bit too early to talk about full IOV compliance... >From what I see in Intel new pci-e 10GbE driver, they have quite a few of the same attributes, and the category is likely to grow further. In IOV world, hw channel requirements are pretty brutal; in a nutshell each channel could be owned by a separate OS instance (and the OS instances do not even have to be the same type). For a non-virtualized OS some of these capabilities are not a "must have", but they are/will be there and Linux may as well take advantage of it. Leonid > > cheers, > jamal > - 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
