From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263995AbUE1Vuk (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 17:50:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264012AbUE1Vrw (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 17:47:52 -0400 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:36001 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263995AbUE1Vpl (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2004 17:45:41 -0400 Message-ID: <40B7B2F4.7080704@pobox.com> Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 17:45:24 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040510 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Nivedita Singhvi CC: Arjan van de Ven , "Martin J. Bligh" , "Nakajima, Jun" , Andrew Morton , Anton Blanchard , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Netdev Subject: Re: CONFIG_IRQBALANCE for AMD64? References: <7F740D512C7C1046AB53446D372001730182BAE2@scsmsx402.amr.corp.intel.com> <40B7797F.2090204@pobox.com> <17750000.1085766378@flay> <20040528175724.GC9898@devserv.devel.redhat.com> <40B7984E.7040208@us.ibm.com> <40B799EB.8060000@pobox.com> <40B79DB0.6090209@us.ibm.com> In-Reply-To: <40B79DB0.6090209@us.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Long term, when NIC hardware is more advanced, we'll want something that divides sockets/connections/etc. into per-CPU clusters... something that's friendly to both SMP and NUMA+SMP configurations. Or if enterprising companies get a clue, and open their NIC firmware, I bet we could do this now. Jeff