On Sun, 2007-07-10 at 21:51 -0700, David Miller wrote: > For these high performance 10Gbit cards it's a load balancing > function, really, as all of the transmit queues go out to the same > physical port so you could: > > 1) Load balance on CPU number. > 2) Load balance on "flow" > 3) Load balance on destination MAC > > etc. etc. etc.
The brain-block i am having is the parallelization aspect of it. Whatever scheme it is - it needs to ensure the scheduler works as expected. For example, if it was a strict prio scheduler i would expect that whatever goes out is always high priority first and never ever allow a low prio packet out at any time theres something high prio needing to go out. If i have the two priorities running on two cpus, then i cant guarantee that effect. IOW, i see the scheduler/qdisc level as not being split across parallel cpus. Do i make any sense? The rest of my understanding hinges on the above, so let me stop here. 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
