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Le samedi 05 juin 2010 =C3=A0 10:26 -0400, jamal a =C3=A9crit :

> Indeed it is AMD specific - but my view is if i was using AMD that wo=
uld
> be more efficient way of doing it; i.e IPI is the lowest common
> denominator which works on all archs. Essentially what i am saying is
> this would be a "inter-cpu messaging netdev" and i could replace its
> send/recv parts from what we do in the RPS path right now to one that
> uses AMD hypertransport etc.

You do realize this should be discussed on lkml , of course ?