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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] Kernel interfaces for multiqueue aware socket
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 07:50:34 +0100
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Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>,
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Le vendredi 17 d=C3=A9cembre 2010 =C3=A0 14:22 +0800, Junchang Wang a =C3=
=A9crit :
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:28 AM, Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com> wrot=
e:
> > On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 9:14 AM, Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> =
wrote:
> >>
> >> SKF_AD_QUEUE doesn't know number of rx queues. Thus user applicati=
on can't
> >> specify right SKF_AD_QUEUE.
> >
> > It is wrong. AFAIK, you can get the queue number through
> > /sys/class/net/eth*/queues/ or /proc/interrupts
> >
>=20
> Valuable comment. Thanks.
>=20
> >
> > If you turn to SKF_AD_QUEUE, I think no patch for kernel is needed.
> >
> This patch set is about parallelization of socket interfaces to gain
> performance boost (say, from 1Mpps to around 5Mpps), rather than
> simply bounding socket to cpu/queue. Therefore, it does worth having.
>=20

Definitely, but this needs to be designed so that it can be used by eve=
n
dumb applications :)