From: Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: hadi@cyberus.ca, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
jeff@garzik.org, auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com
Subject: Re: Multiqueue and virtualization WAS(Re: [PATCH 3/3] NET: [SCHED] Qdisc changes and sch_rr added for multiqueue
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2007 09:16:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46853062.9090009@candelatech.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46852C20.8000501@trash.net>
Patrick McHardy wrote:
> Ben Greear wrote:
>
>> Could someone give a quick example of when I am wrong and promisc mode
>> would allow
>> a NIC to receive a significant number of packets not really destined for
>> it?
>>
>
>
> In a switched environment it won't have a big effect, I agree.
> It might help avoid receiving unwanted multicast traffic, which
> could be more significant than unicast.
>
> Anyways, why be wasteful when it can be avoided .. :)
>
Ok, I had forgotten about multicast, thanks for the reminder!
--
Ben Greear <greearb@candelatech.com>
Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-29 16:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 60+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-28 16:20 [PATCH] NET: Multiple queue hardware support PJ Waskiewicz
2007-06-28 16:21 ` [PATCH 1/3] NET: [DOC] Multiqueue hardware support documentation PJ Waskiewicz
2007-06-28 16:21 ` [PATCH 2/3] NET: [CORE] Stack changes to add multiqueue hardware support API PJ Waskiewicz
2007-06-28 16:31 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-28 17:00 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-28 19:00 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-06-28 19:03 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-28 19:06 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-06-28 19:20 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-28 19:32 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-28 19:37 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-28 21:11 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-06-28 21:18 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-28 23:08 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-06-28 23:31 ` David Miller
2007-06-28 20:39 ` David Miller
2007-06-29 3:39 ` David Miller
2007-06-29 10:54 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-06-28 16:21 ` [PATCH 3/3] NET: [SCHED] Qdisc changes and sch_rr added for multiqueue PJ Waskiewicz
2007-06-28 16:35 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-28 16:43 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-06-28 16:46 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-28 16:50 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-06-28 16:53 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-28 16:50 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-28 17:13 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-28 19:04 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-06-28 19:17 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-28 19:21 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-06-28 19:24 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-28 19:27 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-06-29 4:20 ` David Miller
2007-06-29 8:45 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-06-29 11:43 ` Multiqueue and virtualization WAS(Re: " jamal
2007-06-29 11:59 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-29 12:54 ` jamal
2007-06-29 13:08 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-29 13:19 ` jamal
2007-06-29 15:33 ` Ben Greear
2007-06-29 15:58 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-29 16:16 ` Ben Greear [this message]
2007-06-29 21:36 ` David Miller
2007-06-30 7:51 ` Benny Amorsen
2007-06-29 21:31 ` David Miller
2007-06-30 1:30 ` jamal
2007-06-30 4:35 ` David Miller
2007-06-30 14:52 ` jamal
2007-06-30 20:33 ` David Miller
2007-07-03 12:42 ` jamal
2007-07-03 21:24 ` David Miller
2007-07-04 2:20 ` jamal
2007-07-06 7:32 ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-06 14:39 ` jamal
2007-07-06 15:59 ` James Chapman
2007-07-08 2:30 ` Rusty Russell
2007-07-08 6:03 ` David Miller
2007-06-30 14:33 ` Patrick McHardy
2007-06-30 14:37 ` Waskiewicz Jr, Peter P
2007-06-28 17:57 ` [CORE] Stack changes to add multiqueue hardware support API Patrick McHardy
2007-06-28 17:57 ` [SCHED] Qdisc changes and sch_rr added for multiqueue Patrick McHardy
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