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Subject: Re: [PATCH] rps: make distributing packets fairly among all the
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Le mardi 23 mars 2010 =C3=A0 14:24 +0800, Changli Gao a =C3=A9crit :
> make distributing packets fairly among all the online CPUs default.
>=20
> Make distributing packets fairly among all the online CPUs default, t=
hen
> users don't need any explicit configuration to get the benefit of RPS=
=2E
>=20

Some people want to dedicate a cpu to network interrupts, cache hits
only, to get low latencies.
RPS is not a win for all workloads.

I think we should not change default without a knob.

Didnt we discussed all this during last months ?