Re: [PATCH: 2.6.13-15-SMP 3/3] network: concurrently run softirq network code on SMP

["John Ye" <johny@asimco.com.cn>]

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" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: <johny@asimco.com.cn>
Cc: <netdev@vger.kernel.org>; <kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>; <pekkas@netcore.fi>;
<jmorris@namei.org>; <kaber@coreworks.de>
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.
>