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From: Nuutti Kotivuori <naked@iki.fi>
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 21:03:07 +0000
Subject: [LARTC] Re: SMP and tc
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Andreas Hess wrote:
> I wonder if anyone has run tc on an e.g. dual processor system?  As
> far as I know under linux-2.6 it is possible that two processors
> receive and process packets of one NIC. Is this right?  And if yes,
> does it work fine?

Yes, it is working fine. There are several locks in packet processing
code that span all processors though, so it's not entirely separate,
only mostly so.

-- Naked


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