David, Thanks for your reply. I understand it's not worth to do.
I have made it a loadable module to fulfill the function. it mainly for busy NAT gateway server with SMP to speed up. John Ye ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 21, 2007 1:46 AM Subject: Re: [PATCH: 2.6.13-15-SMP 3/3] network: concurrently run softirq network code on SMP > > The whole reason the queues are per-cpu is so that we do not > have to touch remote processor state nor use locks of any > kind whatsoever. > > With multi-queue networking cards becoming more and more > available, which will split up the packet workload in > hardware across all available cpus, there is less and less > reason to make a patch like this one. > > We've known about this issue for ages, and if we felt it > was appropriate to make this change, we would have done > so years ago. > - 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
