From: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
To: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ifb: move tq from ifb_private
Date: Sun, 05 Dec 2010 09:30:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1291559402.2159.687.camel@mojatatu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimMvb187gOFzZZgWuzWJkk_Z3AOZaoc6M76H-e=@mail.gmail.com>
On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 09:13 +0800, Changli Gao wrote:
> BTW: My ultimate goal is making ifb a multi-queue NIC, and the number
> of queues is equal to the number of the possible CPUs.
My view is this is going to be tricky because:
- we use tasklets. When we reschedule we can end up on a differrent
cpu.
-I dont see any point in having a separate softIRQ
- and if you do use other mechanisms it would require a lot more
testing since there are quiet a few use cases of ifb
cheers,
jamal
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-05 14:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-04 5:55 [PATCH 1/3] ifb: remove the useless debug stats Changli Gao
2010-12-04 5:55 ` [PATCH 2/3] ifb: remove unused macro TX_TIMEOUT Changli Gao
2010-12-04 14:13 ` jamal
2010-12-04 5:55 ` [PATCH 3/3] ifb: move tq from ifb_private Changli Gao
2010-12-04 13:15 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-12-04 13:29 ` Changli Gao
2010-12-04 14:28 ` jamal
2010-12-04 14:45 ` Changli Gao
2010-12-04 14:55 ` jamal
2010-12-04 15:01 ` Changli Gao
2010-12-04 15:09 ` jamal
2010-12-04 14:48 ` jamal
2010-12-04 15:40 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-12-04 16:08 ` jamal
2010-12-04 16:56 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-12-05 0:22 ` Changli Gao
2010-12-05 1:13 ` Changli Gao
2010-12-05 14:30 ` jamal [this message]
2010-12-05 14:40 ` Changli Gao
2010-12-05 15:13 ` Eric Dumazet
2010-12-05 15:16 ` Changli Gao
2010-12-05 15:13 ` jamal
2010-12-05 15:22 ` Changli Gao
2010-12-05 15:31 ` jamal
2010-12-05 14:27 ` jamal
2010-12-05 19:09 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-12-04 14:18 ` jamal
2010-12-04 14:20 ` Changli Gao
2010-12-04 14:42 ` jamal
2010-12-04 14:50 ` Changli Gao
2010-12-04 14:59 ` jamal
2010-12-04 15:07 ` Changli Gao
2010-12-04 15:11 ` jamal
2010-12-04 14:12 ` [PATCH 1/3] ifb: remove the useless debug stats jamal
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