Andi Kleen wrote: >> When the hw TX queue gains space, the driver self-batches packets >> from the sw queue to the hw queue. > > I don't really see the advantage over the qdisc in that scheme. > It's certainly not simpler and probably more code and would likely > also not require less locks (e.g. a currently lockless driver > would need a new lock for its sw queue). Also it is unclear to me > it would be really any faster.
related to this comment, does Linux have a lockless (using atomics) singly linked list element? That would be very useful in a driver hot path. - 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
