RE: Van Jacobson net channels and NIC channels

2006-02-02 Thread Leonid Grossman
> -Original Message- > From: Andi Kleen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Why are you saying it can't be used by the host? The stack > should be fully ready for it. Sorry, I should have said "it can't be used by the host to the full potential of the feature" :-). It does work for us now, a

Re: Van Jacobson net channels and NIC channels

2006-02-02 Thread Andi Kleen
On Thursday 02 February 2006 17:27, Leonid Grossman wrote: > By now we have submitted UFO, MSI-X and LRO patches. The one item on > the TODO list that we did not submit a full driver patch for is the > "support for distributing receive processing across multiple CPUs (using > NIC hw queues)", mai

Van Jacobson net channels and NIC channels

2006-02-02 Thread Leonid Grossman
Thanks to Andi, Dave, Jeff and everyone who responded to the original query; I've got enough pointers to presentations, blogs and ideas to keep me busy for a while :-) VJ channels indeed seem to compliment and take to a different level some sw and hw ideas on Dave's TODO list. By now we have subm