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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v6 3/9] kbuild: document RPS/XPS network
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Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:19:12 +0100
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Le mercredi 16 novembre 2011 =C3=A0 21:59 -0500, David Miller a =C3=A9c=
rit :

> They shouldn't be, they are internal dependency descriptions and shou=
ld
> be invisible to the user.

Unless someone has evidence of a performance cost :)

The rps_lock() adds an atomic operation in netif_rx(), even if RPS is
not really used/configured...